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How to Manage Mailboxes

Understanding how to manage your mailboxes is helpful in understanding how the Microsoft Exchange 20xx Connector is integrated into CA IdentityMinder. The Microsoft Exchange 20xx 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 20xx 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 20xx server, you must acquire its ADS server
• Use an account template that creates Microsoft Exchange 20xx 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 20xx mailboxes, install the ADS and Microsoft Exchange 20xx connectors on your Provisioning Server.

Note: Unlike previous versions of Exchange Server, Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 do 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:

• Remote agent that is used to manage Exchange 2000 and 2003
• Remote agent that is used to manage Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. These versions of Exchange are 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.