Creating new mailboxes

Creating a new mailbox with EMC is easy. Click the New Mailbox option and EMC launches the New Mailbox Wizard to gather the information that it needs to create the mailbox. Figure 6-2 shows the initial screen used by the wizard.

Exchange 2010 supports the following mailbox types:

  • User mailboxes: The standard full-function mailboxes used by Exchange. EMC can create a mailbox in any database in the organization.

  • Room mailboxes: Used to represent conference rooms so that users can book them for meetings through calendar requests.

  • Resource mailboxes: Used to represent other items of equipment (such as projectors, communication equipment, or whiteboards) that users might need to reserve for a meeting.

  • Linked mailboxes: Mailboxes that ...

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