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How to Manage Mailboxes

Understanding how to manage your mailboxes is helpful in understanding how the Microsoft Exchange 200x Connector is integrated into CA Identity Manager. The Microsoft Exchange 200x Connector is designed to run in conjunction with the ADS Connector. With the technology from both connectors, you can manage ADS users who have mailboxes.

Because the Microsoft Exchange 200x Connector runs with the ADS Connector, you will manage ADS objects, not Microsoft Exchange objects. For example, if you want to do the following:

• To acquire a Microsoft Exchange 200x server, you must acquire its ADS server
• Use an account template that creates Microsoft Exchange 200x mailboxes, you must create an ADS account template and assign Microsoft Exchange attributes to the account template
• Create mailboxes for global users, you must create the mailboxes using the global users' ADS accounts
• Create distribution lists, you must assign an email address to each of the ADS groups
• Perform a synchronization on mailboxes, you must synchronize the ADS accounts

To manage Microsoft Exchange 200x mailboxes, install the ADS and Microsoft Exchange 200x connectors on your Provisioning Server.

Note: Unlike previous versions of Exchange server, Exchange Server 2007 does not allow creation of a user mailbox for suspended accounts. All other types of mailboxes will have their associated user disabled.  Such accounts will not have their suspension state propagated from the Global User.

The ADS connector uses the following remote agents for all Exchange related operations:

• imps-e2k-remote-agent is used to manage Exchange 2000 and 2003
• imps-e2k7-x64-remote-agent is used to manage Exchange 2007. This is a 64-bit application as Exchange 2007 is only supported on 64-bit operating systems.

For more information about installing and configuring the ADS Connector, see the Active Directory Services section of this guide.