Mailbox-Enabled and Mail-Enabled Recipients

This section focuses on creating mail-enabled objects with the following notes and exceptions:

• Public folders are mail-enabled recipients that differ significantly from other recipients. For more information about public folders, see Managing Mailbox Stores and Public Folder Stores.

• InetOrgPerson objects can be mail-enabled only if you have a Windows Server 2003 domain controller and have only Exchange 2003 servers in your organization.

• Mail-enabled groups are covered in their own section that follows.

• Some Active Directory objects, such as computers and printers, cannot be made into recipients.

To create a new Active Directory object that can be mail-enabled or mailbox-enabled, use Active Directory Users and Computers, as shown in the following figure.

Creating a recipient using Active Directory Users and Computers

When you create a recipient object on a network where Exchange is already installed, the recipient will be mailbox-enabled or mail-enabled by default. Clear the Create an Exchange mailbox check box if you do not want to mail-enable or mailbox-enable the Active Directory object.

Clear the check box for the object not to be a recipient

You can use the Exchange Task Wizard to mail-enable or mailbox-enable an existing user object. For detailed information, see How to Make an Existing Active Directory Object a Recipient.

Using Exchange Task Wizard to mail-enable or mailbox-enable an existing user object