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.
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 -Force New-Mailbox -UserPrincipalName [email protected] ` -Alias dave ` -Database DAGDB1 ` -Name DaveJones ` -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 ...