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Hal Berenson · Guest

We're trying to create an automated provisioning system and have run into a
problem with creating mailboxes. Our users login using UPN and their email
addresses match their UPNs. All the examples we've seen for creating
mailboxes end up using the sAMAccountName as the mailbox name. For our
users the sAMAccountName is a random string, so this is useless as an email
address. We go in and add the appropriate email address on the mailbox, so
for the user it really doesn't matter. But, since it takes 30 or more
seconds from creating the mailbox (with CDOEXM's
IMailBoxStore.CreateMailBox) until we can add the correct email address this
is really screwing up our user experience. What we'd like to do is have the
initial mailbox creation be based on the UPN rather than sAMAccountName. Is
this possible?

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Hal Berenson, President
PredictableIT, LLC

Hal Berenson · Guest

Is there really no one in this newsgroup who can help with this? Is there a
better place to be asking?

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PredictableIT, LLC

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Jeffrey Lathrop · Guest

I wrote an account automation script at my last job. The user and mailbox
creation were handled as 2 separate sub routines. Create the user using the
ADODB objects,

Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://OU=NewUsers,dc=mycompanyr,dc=com,dc=INC")
Set objUser = objOU.Create("User", "cn="&strMultiName)

This creates the user and then you can set the UPN to what you want it to be.

Then create the mailbox passing the objUser variable to the createmailbox
subroutine.

create and new variable from a CDO.Person object

set cdPerson = CreateObject("CDO.Person")
set cdPerson = objuser

-- cdPerson.CreateMailbox
"CN="&cmstore&",CN="&cmstoregrp&",CN=InformationStore,CN="&cmsrv&",CN=Servers,CN="&cmadmingrp&",CN=Administrative
Groups,CN=mycompany,CN=Microsoft
Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,dc=com,dc=inc"
cdPerson.SetInfo

Then set the Proxyaddresses for the user. The capitalize SMTP represents
the primary email address of the mailbox.

cdPerson.Put "proxyAddresses",
Array("smtp:"&aliasB&"@mycompany.com","SMTP:"&aliasNB&"@mycompany.com")
cdPerson.SetInfo

There is no delay in being able to set these values. You should however use
a specific dc server for your LDAP query string as some calls can go to
different dcs and would not get replicated in time for the mailbox creation.
Personal experience.

Jeffrey Lathrop

"Hal Berenson" wrote:

Hal Berenson · Guest

Hmm. We are finding that there is a 30-second delay between the mailbox
creation and the ability to add proxyaddresses. You can even see this with
the ADCU in that once you add a user and it kicks off mailbox creation you
can't add email addresses for that same delay.

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Hal Berenson, President
PredictableIT, LLC

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Jeffrey Lathrop · Guest

I have been running this code for 18months and not having a problem with
proxy addresses being added.
The script adds them, and true there is a delay in seeing the addresses in
ADCU, but when
exchange is done synching all the information, the addresses added via the
script are there.

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Jeffrey Lathrop

"Hal Berenson" wrote:

Hal Berenson · Guest

Thanks! We'll give it a try.

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PredictableIT, LLC

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