Using the Mailbox Manager in Exchange 2000
One of the new features that was implemented in Exchange 2000 SP1 is the Mailbox Manager. With the Mailbox Manager an Exchange Administrator has the ability to control the content of a user’s mailboxes.
One of the new features that was implemented in Exchange 2000 SP1 is the Mailbox Manager. With the Mailbox Manager an Exchange Administrator has the ability to control the content of a user’s mailboxes.
One question that seems to come up a lot is “How can I delete a message from all the users mailboxes”, this question gets asked for many reasons, such as someone sent an email to the wrong group of people, you know that a message is in your system that contains an attachments that you do not want your users opening, you can probably think of a few more reasons.
In Mark Fugatt’s article “Forwarding Mail to an External Recipient,” he covered how to take mail destined for an internal mailbox and forward it to an outside email address such as a Hotmail or AOL account.
One of the big problems that Exchange Administrators have is controlling the size of user’s mailboxes. Well never fear help is at hand; with a few simple steps you can have a lot more control.
It is very common for some of your users to express an interest in having their mail delivered to a mailbox that is external to your organization. For example, the user is going to be working away from the office and would like their mail to be delivered to their Hotmail account. Another request might be to have their mail delivered to a different person altogether.
The Recipient Update Service (RUS) is a very important component in your Exchange installation, it is RUS that is responsible for updating address lists and email addresses in your Active Directory.