This week we are going to change gears, moving away from planning to talk about creating recipients in Exchange 2000. We have four types of recipient objects that we can create in Exchange 2000, including mailbox-enabled recipients, mail-enabled recipients, contacts, and distribution groups. We will start with mailbox-enabled recipients, which have a Windows 2000 user account, and an Exchange 2000 email address. Before we actually create our users, we will have to look at the administrative utilities we will be using in order to create our users. We will see that for creating and managing our Exchange recipients, most of our tasks will be accomplished from within Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). The ADUC we will use will have to have the ESM (Exchange System Manager) installed on the same system in order for us to manage our recipients from there.
Once we have the proper administrative tools in place, we can begin to create our mailbox-enabled recipients. How we go about this will depend on whether or not we already have a user account created in ADUC. In our case, we will first look at creating a new mailbox-enabled user from scratch, and then we will look at mail-enabling an existing user account. Like creating a user account in Active Directory (AD), we first want to decide where we want to create the new user object that we will be mail-enabling.
Alright, enough introduction…let’s take a look at mailbox-enabling a new user obect in Exchange 2000. I have selected the Users container in ADUC, right-clicked, and selected New User.