Once the mailbox is created the ADSI user object “SetInfo” method is run and the user is created and mailbox enabled. The first method implemented for this object, “CreateMailbox”, will designate the pointer as accessing the “IMailboxStore” interface of a CDO.Person object. This creates a new blank pointer object pointing to the ADSI user object just created. Now comes the strange looking line “Set objMailbox = objUser”. The “Create” command is run to create an object of type “User” in the container and then a list of properties is entered. Please note that you can change this script so that the user will be created in a container or OU of your choosing. Now we get the container, in this case the “users” container. Similarly, “CN=” is added to the object name designated by “emailname” to enable its creation later on in the script. This will create the directory name “cn=domain,cn=local” from the domain name “domain.local”.

The “.” character is replaced by “,cn=” and another “cn=” is added to the beginning of the string. ObjMailbox.CreateMailbox “LDAP://CN=” & MDBName & _Īt first, the domain name is parsed.

ObjUser.Put “userPrincipalName”, emailname Set objUser = objContainer.Create(“User”, recip) Set objContainer = GetObject(“LDAP://CN=users,” & DomainDN) ‘split the domain name to get the directory name for itĭomainDN = “dc=” & Replace(DomainName,”.”,”,dc=”) (MDBName,StorageGroup,Server,AdminGroup,Organization,DomainName,emailname,FirstName,LastName) The following subroutine creates a mailbox-enabled user using ADSI and CDOEXM. To mailbox enable the user you will need to know the database, storage group, server name, administrator group, organization name and domain name. When creating a new mailbox enabled user in Active Directory using scripting you can either start with ADSI and then use CDOEXM to complete the job or use just CDOEXM for both user and mailbox creation.Ī user will need a name, a login name, a password. Instead, CDOEXM, an interface created for Exchange management operations is used. You can use ADSI to access an object and also to create one but the Exchange operations involved, such as mailbox enabling a user, cannot be done with ADSI alone.

Scripting Exchange Using VBScript and ADSI (Part 3).

Scripting Exchange Using VBScript and ADSI (Part 1).

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