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Microsoft Exchange 2013 Cookbook

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Microsoft Exchange 2013 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange 2013 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing resource mailboxes


Next to regular user mailboxes, Exchange also has a variety of special mailboxes which include the following:

  • Arbitration mailboxes used for Exchange internal functions

  • Discovery mailboxes, which are in fact regular mailboxes but reserved to be used for Discovery Searches

  • Resource mailboxes representing resources, such as Meeting Rooms, Equipment

In this topic we will have a look at some of the more common tasks involved with managing resource mailboxes.

Getting ready

To complete the following steps, you will need to launch the Exchange Management Shell or log in to the Exchange Admin Center.

How to do it...

This section explains us managing resource mailboxes.

Creating a new room mailbox

The following command will create a new room mailbox called Meeting Room Barcelona in the specified Organizational Unit:

New-Mailbox –Room "Meeting Room Barcelona" –OrganizationalUnit "OU=Resources,OU=Accounts,DC=exblog,DC=be"

To create a new room mailbox through the EAC refer to the following...