VBScript - Create Mailboxes

Creating mailboxes with a VBScript

Two ways of creating users with mailboxes

There are two possible strategies, create users from scratch, or add mailbox attributes to existing accounts.

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Strategy 1

Create a new user complete with mailbox. Build the complete user object from scratch, the result will be a mail-enabled user account. For strategy 1, most of the work is done by CSVDE and Excel. Create a spreadsheet and put the LDAP fields in the top row.

Part a)

In addition to the usual LDAP fields: dn, sAMAccountName, sn, givenName you need 5 extra Exchange mailbox fields.

Mail specific LDAP attributes

msExchHomeServerName

mail

mailnickname

homeMDB

mDBUseDefaults

Import your spreadsheet with CSVDE -i -filename.csv -k

Part b)

Once the user has been created, then you need to set the password and activate the account. See script below.

' Set Password.vbs
' VBScript to Set Passwords by cycling through a named OU
' Author Guy Thomas http://computerperformance.co.uk/
' Version 2.9 - March 10th 2004
' ----------------------------------------------------'
Option Explicit
Dim objOU, objUser
Dim strContainer, strLastUser, intCounter
strContainer = "ou=St Hilary, dc=CPEXCH,dc=com"
set objOU =GetObject("LDAP://" & strContainer )
intCounter = 0
   For each objUser in objOU
      If objUser.class="user" then
      objUser.SetPassword "P@ssw0rd"
      objUser.SetInfo
      objUser.Put "userAccountControl", "512"
      ObjUser.SetInfo
      intCounter = intCounter +1
      strLastUser = objUser.Get ("name")
   End if
next
WScript.Echo intCounter & " Passwords change. Last user " _
& strLastUser
WScript.Quit

Strategy 2

Strategy 2 Involves adding mailbox attributes to a user that already exists, but is NOT mail-enabled. Such a user may have been imported from NT 4.0 by an Active Directory Connection agreement.

It is not easy building a VBScript which will add the necessary tabs in Active Directory Users and computers. However, my ebook covers all the methods, and commands necessary to convert the user to a mailbox-enabled status.

Moreover, the ebook is dedicated to teaching more of the syntax, methods and commands to make you expert at VBScript.

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