Creating, modifying, and removing mailboxes
One of the most common tasks performed within the Exchange Management Shell is mailbox management. In this recipe, we'll take a look at the command syntax required to create, update, and remove mailboxes from your Exchange organization. The concepts outlined in this recipe can be used to perform basic day-to-day tasks, and will be useful for more advanced scenarios, such as creating mailboxes in bulk.
How to do it...
- Let's start off by creating a mailbox-enabled Active Directory user account. To do this, we can use the
New-Mailboxcmdlet, as shown in the following example:
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText P@ssw0rd ` -ForceNew-Mailbox -UserPrincipalName [email protected] `-Alias dave `-Database DB1 `-Name 'Dave Jones' `-OrganizationalUnit Sales `-Password $password `-FirstName Dave `-LastName Jones `-DisplayName 'Dave Jones'
- Once the mailbox has been created, we can modify it using the
Set-Mailboxcmdlet:
Set-Mailbox -Identity dave `-UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults...
