At the risk of a moron or two trying to indicate that I'm rude in my response, can I point that there isn't really a difference between a user account and a mailbox per se (or at least that's a backwards way to think about it for your purposes), instead there is a user object and that object can be mail or mailbox enabled.
In your instance I believe that you will first want to determine if there is a user account for the user in question. If there is, then you want to determine if it is a mail enabled or a mailbox enabled object. If it is neither, you likely want to mail enable it, rather than create a contact for it. If a user object does not exist for a user, then you have to decide if you want to create a user account for it (and optionally mail or mailbox enable it) or create a contact for it. Further risking the ire of a moron or two, I'll start first with a fishing lesson.. and point you to two articles which show how to create mailbox and mail enabled users respectively and hint that they provide a good starting point for further research on your query. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wss/wss/_cd o_creating_a_mailbox_enabled_recipient.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wss/wss/_cd o_creating_a_contact.asp As an additional pointer, you might also want to take a look at ADSI Edit which can provide some additional useful information. If after looking over that information you have additional queries, please feel free to post a follow-up question or three. Or, just wait for $arse1 and $arse2 to post much more complete and helpful answers than mine. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bare, Ronald A. [mailto:RABARE@;ANL.GOV] > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 3:43 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > > Can anyone point me to information on what Active Directory attributes are > used to indicate that an Exchange 2000 mailbox has been associate with an > Active Directory account. > > We are trying to prepare a program to synchronize the Active Directory > with > our HR directory and we need this information to decide for which users to > create contact entries. We (of course) do not want to create contacts for > the people who already Exchange enabled accounts. > > Thank you. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
