Active Directory, 3rd Edition

Mail-Disabling a User

Now that you have seen how to mail-enable a user, it is a good time to show a code sample illustrating mail-disabling a user:

    ' This code mail disables a user.
    Option Explicit
    Dim strUserDN, objUser
    ' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
    strUserDN = "<UserDN>"   ' e.g. cn=DrAmy,cn=Users,dc=mycorp,dc=com
    ' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------
    Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUserDN)
    objUser.MailDisable
    objUser.SetInfo(  )
    WScript.Echo "Successfully mail-disabled user."

Tip

Mail-disabling a user requires Exchange Data Administrator permissions.

Once again, this is a very simple script with one new method, the MailDisable method. This method is aptly named in that it mail-disables a user, and that is all it does. Unfortunately, you cannot use this method to mailbox-disable a user. So when you call this method, you should be sure that the user is mail-enabled versus mailbox-enabled. If you use this method on a mailbox-enabled user, you will get an error such as "E-mail addresses cannot be removed from this user because it has a mailbox." The quick way to ascertain whether a user has a mailbox versus being simply mail-enabled is to check for the existence of the homeMDB attribute. If a user object has homeMDB populated, there is an associated mailbox for that account.