Re: Mailbox Creation

Hmm. We are finding that there is a 30-second delay between the mailbox
creation and the ability to add proxyaddresses. You can even see this with
the ADCU in that once you add a user and it kicks off mailbox creation you
can't add email addresses for that same delay.


--
Hal Berenson, President
PredictableIT, LLC


"Jeffrey Lathrop" <JeffreyLathrop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:D782F8F6-59EB-4D62-82DA-519A51DCB1B3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I wrote an account automation script at my last job. The user and mailbox
> creation were handled as 2 separate sub routines. Create the user using
> the
> ADODB objects,
>
> Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://OU=NewUsers,dc=mycompanyr,dc=com,dc=INC";)
> Set objUser = objOU.Create("User", "cn="&strMultiName)
>
>
> This creates the user and then you can set the UPN to what you want it to
> be.
>
> Then create the mailbox passing the objUser variable to the createmailbox
> subroutine.
>
> create and new variable from a CDO.Person object
>
> set cdPerson = CreateObject("CDO.Person")
> set cdPerson = objuser
>
> -- cdPerson.CreateMailbox
> "CN="&cmstore&",CN="&cmstoregrp&",CN=InformationStore,CN="&cmsrv&",CN=Servers,CN="&cmadmingrp&",CN=Administrative
> Groups,CN=mycompany,CN=Microsoft
> Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,dc=com,dc=inc"
> cdPerson.SetInfo
>
> Then set the Proxyaddresses for the user. The capitalize SMTP represents
> the primary email address of the mailbox.
>
> cdPerson.Put "proxyAddresses",
> Array("smtp:"&aliasB&"@mycompany.com","SMTP:"&aliasNB&"@mycompany.com")
> cdPerson.SetInfo
>
>
> There is no delay in being able to set these values. You should however
> use
> a specific dc server for your LDAP query string as some calls can go to
> different dcs and would not get replicated in time for the mailbox
> creation.
> Personal experience.
>
> Jeffrey Lathrop
>
>
>
> "Hal Berenson" wrote:
>
>> Is there really no one in this newsgroup who can help with this? Is
>> there a
>> better place to be asking?
>>
>> --
>> Hal Berenson, President
>> PredictableIT, LLC
>>
>>
>> "Hal Berenson" <hberenson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:OUa3ioboFHA.632@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > 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?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Hal Berenson, President
>> > PredictableIT, LLC
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>


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