Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Chapter 11. Creating and Managing Recipients

• Understanding Recipient Types

• Users

• Mailbox Resources

• Mail Contacts

• Distribution Groups

• Filtering Recipients

• Templates

• Address Lists

• Summary

Sending and receiving information is the foundation of messaging, groupware, and, of course, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. In this chapter, you start looking at the message transfer process within an Exchange system. Exchange Server 2007 is based on a multitude of messaging components, but with some analysis it becomes apparent how these components interact to create an enterprise-wide messaging system.

Recipients are objects in the Active Directory directory service. These objects in turn reference resources that can receive messages through interaction with Exchange ...