Hello everyone! – I am back from a wonderful trip to Greece, slightly tanned, needing another holiday and eager to resume my writing here. I hope that you are all well – and still enjoy this Blog.

Anyway – I arrived home on Wednesday night, then (rather stupidly) returned to work on the Thursday, managed to get through the day and then when I got home – proceeded to have a number of beers and then passed out, therefore tonight has been the first opportunity that I have had to have a look around the forums and see what has been going on in the world of Exchange.

Anyway on my travels around the forums I found this post from a buddy of mine (Phil – or Scouser as he is known on MSEXCHANGE.org) asking if there was a way to create mailboxes for around 80 accounts which already exist. This stirred my memory about a script that I wrote a little while ago which was based upon KB327079.

The original Microsoft script gives you an example of how you can, using CDOEXM create a mailbox for a user which resides in the Users Container in AD and place the mailbox in a random store on your Exchange Server, however the script that I wrote will allow for you to specify an OU where your user accounts are located -AND– choose the store that you wish to place them in.

The script uses the CDOEXM CreateMailbox function, therefore I recommend that you run it directly on your Exchange Server -or– if you run into problems on a DC that has both the ESM and Exchange ADUC extensions installed.

Instructions:

Download the following script to your Exchange server – place it in a folder such as C:\CreateUsers:

CreateMailboxes-ForAccounts.vbs

From the CreateUsers folder, double click on the CreateMailboxes-ForAccounts.vbs file – which will display the following prompt:

Here you need to supply the DN path to the OU – so for example, if all my users are contained in an OU called “ExchangeUsers” – then in the above box I would type OU=ExchangeUsers – if however, my users are in an OU called Exchange – which has a PARENT OU called EUSERS then the above syntax would be: OU=Exchange,OU=EUSERS.

Generally speaking I would place the account that you wish to operate on in a single OU in the root of the ADUC Management console – and then move them when you are done.

When you are happy with the DN syntax above – click on the “OK” button which will display the following prompt:

Here you will need to type in the name of the DATABASE that you wish to place your users mailboxes into – the above example will place all of the Mailboxes into a database called “Gen Database” – when you are happy with your selection, click on the “OK” button.

The Script will then go away and process the changes – when it has completed you will be presented with the following prompt:

Click on the “OK” button to close the script and you should now have mailboxes configured for all your user accounts.

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