Creating a Mailbox

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This section describes what occurs in the mailbox store when you create a mailbox.

To create mailboxes, use Active Directory Users and Computers. You can create mailboxes in two ways:

  • Create a new user   You can create the mailbox as part of the process of creating a user.

  • Create a mailbox for an existing user   You can right-click a user, and then click Exchange Tasks to start the Exchange Task Wizard. Creating a mailbox is one of the tasks you can perform with this wizard.

The mailbox is not immediately accessible. Although Active Directory attributes for the mailbox are configured immediately, the attributes for the mailbox in the Exchange store are not configured completely until one of the following occurs:

  • The user tries to access the mailbox.

  • Exchange receives a message that is addressed to the new mailbox. You may want to automatically send new e-mail users an introductory or hello message after their accounts have been configured, especially if the users may not be using Outlook.

Either of these events will trigger Exchange to finish configuring the mailbox in the store.