The Exchange 2007 Management Shell has a new face

The new Exchange 2007 managmet

Recipient management in Exchange 2007 can be quite challenging. In Exchange 2003 recipients were managed using the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) MMC snap-ins. However with Exchange 2007, Exchange management tasks have been removed from ADUC and integrated into the Exchange Management Console (It remind me of Exchange 5.5).
So now recipient and user management is separated into two different management tools.
Furthermore in order to perform bulk operations we should drill into the wonderful world of Windows power shell.
The Exchange Management Shell is solution for performing bulk user changes usually using a simple short command line cmdlets.

Many of my costumers are complaining on the way they need to administer users using two different consoles, the ADUC snap-in and the EMC and most of them are too lazy to turn into power shell.

In this article I will explain how to manage Exchange 2007 recipients using the Active Directory MMC console (ADUC) with a little 3rd party called the Exchange 2007 Task Wizard by U-Bsmart

The U-Bsmart Exchange Tasks 2007

This tool extends the Microsoft AD to include bulk recipient management and adds the Exchange Tabs to the user object in the ADUC.

This tool uses Exchange shell command and can be installed on any computer that has the Exchange tools installed on. This behavior makes this tool very extensible and safe.

Some of the actions that can be done on a single user, an OU or a set of users using the U-Bsmart Exchange Tasks 2007 are:

· Create Mailbox

· Delete Mailbox

· Export Mailbox into PST

· Gathering Mailbox Statistics

· Set Message Quota

· And much more…

Download the U-Bsmat Exchange 2007 Task Wizard from
www.u-bsmart.com

Enjoy !!!