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Managing resource mailboxes

Managing resource mailboxes

(upbeat music) - Let's take a look at managing resource mailboxees in Exchange using PowerShell. So first thing is you need to either be in inside of the exchange management shell or have an Exchange PowerShell session open. So you can see here that I've got an Exchange PowerShell session open. So first thing we'll take a look at is creating resource mailboxes. So just like a mailbox for a user we use the new mailbox cmdlet. The only difference is that we're going to set the room to be true for a real mailbox. And these primers here I've got splattered out, if you're not familiar with splatting, check out our snip on PowerShell splatting. Then of course I'm also giving this room a name, and display name. So we'll pass that to the new mailbox cmdlet. And as output we get just indicates that that mailbox was created. And something else to mention is that it does create a user-enacted directory. But if we look at that user using the GET-ADuser cmdlet, you'll notice that that user is not…

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