Working with Exchange accounts
Before we delve into scripting, we would like to review the different Exchange concepts we will be working with. All of these entities have the usual commands to create/update/delete them. As mentioned earlier, an exhaustive review of all the commands is impractical, but we will supply what we hope is a good review of the most common maintenance scenarios:
- User: An Active Directory account that can access Office 365 services but does not have Exchange access. These users cannot be recipients and are usually not accessible via Outlook.
- Mailbox: A mailbox is the most important entity within Exchange. In addition to emails, it contains scheduling, calendar, and all the Exchange features for a user account. Mailboxes are provisioned not only to users, but for also for shared, room, and other resources.
- Mail user: A mail user is an Active Directory account that can log in to the different services offered by Office 365. However, the account does not have a mailbox...
