Active Directory, 3rd Edition

Summary

In this chapter, we had a basic discussion of some basic concepts of Exchange, such as mail- and mailbox-enabling Active Directory objects and delegation of Exchange permissions. Next, we looked at the mechanisms available to manipulate various Exchange properties of user, contact, and group objects in Active Directory via script interfaces. Then we used these mechanisms to mail- and mailbox-enable various objects, as well as several other admin tasks commonly handled through the Active Directory Users and Computers and Exchange System Manager Tools. Finally, we presented a script to gather all information available from the mailbox store through the IMailBoxStore interface for all mailboxes on all Exchange servers and dumped that information to a file in a semi-colon delimited format. This script illustrated how you can take simple concepts and build them up to generate a great deal of useful information about your environment. That simple dump could be used to analyze mailbox use in your organization or be used to track mailbox growth and trending information.