Exchange Server 2003

pizzaboy

Question: When setting up mailboxes on exchange 2003 server, is the primary task simply going to active directory users and right click on the user and run the exchange wizard?

agustinchernitsky

Hi,

Yes, that simple... Remember some things:

1.- Exchange is bound to AD.
2.- You have to use the ADU&C that was installed with Exchange (normally on the exchange server or on your workstation), since it has the tabs for exchange or starts the wizard
3.- If you created the account, then you can mailbox enable it using the exchange tasks (right click on the user... in ADU&C)

good luck amigo.

sprkymrk

agustinchernitsky wrote:

2.- You have to use the ADU&C that was installed with Exchange (normally on the exchange server or on your workstation), since it has the tabs for exchange or starts the wizard

In case some folks aren't aware, you can install the Exchange tools from the E2K3 CD on any workstation that has the normal admin tools (for ADUC etc.) to enable the Exchange related tabs on user properties.

pizzaboy

Thanks alot guys. Much help

agustinchernitsky

"sprkymrk wrote:

In case some folks aren't aware, you can install the Exchange tools from the E2K3 CD on any workstation that has the normal admin tools (for ADUC etc.) to enable the Exchange related tabs on user properties.

LOL! I got a call once from an admin saying that there was something wrong with his Ex2003 installation... he said that the AD Schema was corrupted because the Exchange Tabs in the ADU&C in the DC weren't available.

Of course, EX2003 was on another server....

I wonder how many people now about this

homerj742

I actually just learned how this was done right now!

I knew how to create mailboxes, but how the tools were installed in say, a domain controller, I was not aware.

agustinchernitsky

Well thats what you learn from being certified... or actually reading the help file .

Danman32

agustinchernitsky wrote:

"sprkymrk wrote:

In case some folks aren't aware, you can install the Exchange tools from the E2K3 CD on any workstation that has the normal admin tools (for ADUC etc.) to enable the Exchange related tabs on user properties.

LOL! I got a call once from an admin saying that there was something wrong with his Ex2003 installation... he said that the AD Schema was corrupted because the Exchange Tabs in the ADU&C in the DC weren't available.

Of course, EX2003 was on another server....

I wonder how many people now about this

I got that alot also.

Interesting note: When you go through the wizard to add a mailbox to a user, you aren't really creating a mailbox in the store. All you are doing is setting a config on the user object that points to the mailbox that may or may not yet exist. I've often gotten concerns that they went through the process of creating the mailbox, but Exchange failed to create it. They were looking for the mailbox in the store. The store won't have a mailbox for the user until the mailbox actually gets used, such as sending an email, or receiving one. Touching the mailbox with OL will also create the mailbox as OL adds default items to the mailbox.