If you haven’t already, please read my first post on where and how to download a trial version of User Management Resource Administrator, developed by tools4ever.

Download Trial Version of UMRA > http://www.tools4ever.com/download/

UMRA – Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003

Most Active Directory environments will use Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003/2007 for email services for their users. Creating, Managing and Editing these accounts is a daunting task, and sometimes requires an in-depth knowledge of these systems to create a simple email for a user. However, with UMRA this tasks becomes very easy to do, and creates email accounts with complete uniformity. For this blog we will focus on UMRA’s ability to do tasks on 2000/2003 Exchange, we will get into 2007 in another post. Below is a screen shot of some of the built in actions that UMRA has for managing Exchange Mailbox’s.

UMRA – Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 Actions

> Create Exchange mailbox
> Edit Exchange mailbox
> Modify Exchange mailbox
> Move Exchange mailbox
> Delete Exchange mailbox
> Manage Exchange recipient mail addresses

UMRA – Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 Tips

Most of our clients we build UMRA – Automation Scripts for have multiple Exchange Mail stores, either for different types of users, or different locations. So how can UMRA know where create these Exchange Mailbox’s at? Simple, UMRA has the ability to Create “Mapping Tables” to compare data that you send your UMRA script. So for example, if you have CSV or Database data that you’re working with, you can use a column of data determine the mail store location. So as you can see UMRA’s ability to manage Exchange accounts is very versatile, and flexible, allowing you do most scripts you have now in VBScript, or Peal, to be converted quickly and easily. No more having hundreds of lines of code to create an Exchange Mailbox, now it’s done in 1 simple UMRA script action.

Keep an eye on my blog, we will next talk about how UMRA handles Exchange 2007 with windows Powershell!