2. Assigning a Mailbox to More than One User
For most administrators, user accounts and mailboxes
are created a few at a time rather than one at a time. The procedure
for doing this using the EMC is almost identical to the procedure for
assigning a mailbox to a single user. When configuring the mailbox
settings (shown in Figure 9),
the alias for each user is automatically configured; the alias will be
the same as the user's Active Directory user account. The mailbox
database must also be the same for all the users selected.
The configuration summary (shown in Figure 10) will show you all the users selected and what will be configured for each user.
One annoyance that you will experience when
configuring more than one user is that if you assign a user a managed
folder policy, the legacy clients confirmation box (shown previously in
Figure 6)
will pop up for each user that you are configuring. You can avoid this
by using the Exchange Management Shell, but that may be more than many
administrators are prepared to deal with.
Finally, the Completion screen that shows you the EMS cmdlet(s) that were executed is a bit different. In Figure 11
you can see the EMS cmdlets that were executed to mailbox-enable two
user accounts. Note that in this case the unique name of the user
account was piped to the Enable-Mailbox cmdlet.
