Attempting to create a mailbox for a user in ADUC with Powershell on Exchange Server 2003 Environment
I have been searching on the net and found some very bloated code to create mailboxes for exchange 2003. I was wondering if anyone knew the most efficient way (via a snap-in or whatever) to do this at this development stage of Powershell that we are in. Most of the documents I've read are dated and very hard to follow. I'm not saying it should be easy, but I'm trying to do something like
"Exchange Tasks, Create mailbox, <pick server>, finish". That's it! There's gotta be a native way to do this without 80 lines of code. Any guidance would be very helpful.
I'm imagining something like
New-QADUser -everything you want to put
$mailserver = <server name>
Create-Mailbox -server $mailserver -identity <username>
Any ideas?
"Exchange Tasks, Create mailbox, <pick server>, finish". That's it! There's gotta be a native way to do this without 80 lines of code. Any guidance would be very helpful.
I'm imagining something like
New-QADUser -everything you want to put
$mailserver = <server name>
Create-Mailbox -server $mailserver -identity <username>
Any ideas?
BSonPosh
I have never had to to do this, but I will poke around and see what I can find.
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Well thanks for the input. If they come out with one in the future, would you post it on your blog page? I'm assuming they have to be coming out with one soon. I'll try this and see how it goes, but I'm going to go ahead and close the question. As far as I'm concerned, you're the only expert on this site for Powershell :)
-Dale Harris
-Dale Harris
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Hey Brandon, thanks again. BTW, since only you and I can read this, I appreciate all of your help since I'm in Iraq, deployed, and I don't have a lot of bandwidth to spend surfing for results. Also, getting answers to our hard questions are pretty huge if you think about the implications. I've served for just over 4 years now and have 2 left. If the questions are a little tame, it's because sometimes the easy way out for me is to just go on EE and post.
I am not entirely sure if they (MS) will invest the time, but perhaps some third-party will. Lets just hope people move to Exchange 2007 quickly :)