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Recipients Lists

2008-07-13T15:41:00Z

In this post I will try to bring you the way that all Recipient Lists, such as Address Lists or Distribution Lists behave in Exchange Server 2007 and what should we do with our old ones from Exchange Server 2003 and a few advices to some possible issues you may experience. Distribution Lists Types Most of the distribution lists types that you can get in Exchange Server 2007 are familiar if you have been dealing with Exchange Server 2003 as we can see below: Universal Distribution Group : This is...(read more)

Mailbox Management

2008-07-12T17:20:00Z

In continuation of my last post, Exchange Recipients, I brought this one to kind of complement a bit more and go deep on the troubleshoot side. Besides that will try to show differences or what we have new since Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007. Mailbox Management Tasks We can split these ones between the functionalities that we brought from Exchange Server 2003 (even these ones having now Exchange Management Shell cmdlets) and the new ones that we got with Exchange Server 2007. New Mailbox...(read more)

Exchange Recipients

2008-07-12T14:31:00Z

Exchange Recipients have changed a quite a bit since Exchange Server 2003. With this post I will try to give you an overview of how it works now and eventually a few tips regarding troubleshooting. Recipient Management One thing that definitely will make Exchange Administrators life easier is the Recipient Configuration container as it brings such a simplified recipient provisioning for them, such asthe fact that we can split permissions in a single forest, or by other words we have the ability to...(read more)

Shared Mailboxes

2008-07-11T01:37:00Z

Exchange Server 2007 introduces many new and really well defined recipient types. One of them is the one my customer asked me about. The process to create a Shared Mailbox will create a disable Active Directory user as there is no point to have it - that is not the purpose of this recipient. On the old and still actual days of Exchange Server 2003 or older, when we created a Shared Mailbox we basically created an Active Directory account with an associated mailbox and those credentials would be shared...(read more)