Chapter 13 -- Creating and Managing Recipients

Chapter 13

About This Chapter

Recipient objects are an integral part of any messaging system. They form the address lists from which users can pick message recipients, against which client programs can resolve recipient addresses, and through which message transfer processes learn where to deliver messages. Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server maintains its recipient information entirely in the Active Directory directory service. This allows you, among other things, to add mailbox information to a newly created user account in the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.

Windows 2000 Enterprise and Domain Admins are Exchange 2000 administrators by default. In other words, every domain administrator can create, move, and delete user accounts plus mailboxes in his or her home domain. Every enterprise administrator can perform the same actions across the whole forest, including all associated domains. The delegation of Exchange 2000-related permissions was covered in Chapter 4, "Planning the Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Installation."

This chapter concentrates on the management of recipient objects in Active Directory. Available recipient objects and their characteristics are introduced and resource management tasks are discussed.

Before You Begin

To complete this chapter:

• Prepare your test environment according to the descriptions given in the "Getting Started" section of "About This Book."
• You need a general understanding of how Microsoft Outlook 2000 accesses address information from Global Catalog servers, and you need to be familiar with the concepts of Active Directory and Global Catalog replication (see Chapter 3, "Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Architecture").