Mailbox Creation

We're trying to create an automated provisioning system and have run into a
problem with creating mailboxes. Our users login using UPN and their email
addresses match their UPNs. All the examples we've seen for creating
mailboxes end up using the sAMAccountName as the mailbox name. For our
users the sAMAccountName is a random string, so this is useless as an email
address. We go in and add the appropriate email address on the mailbox, so
for the user it really doesn't matter. But, since it takes 30 or more
seconds from creating the mailbox (with CDOEXM's
IMailBoxStore.CreateMailBox) until we can add the correct email address this
is really screwing up our user experience. What we'd like to do is have the
initial mailbox creation be based on the UPN rather than sAMAccountName. Is
this possible?

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Hal Berenson, President
PredictableIT, LLC



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