Existing ADUC and Exchange 2007
I am currently running Exchange 2003 in production, and the DC's and a number of adminworkstations use Active Directory Users and Computers (or the ADUC snap-in in anMMC console) to create, manage, and delete user accounts and the associated Exchange mailboxes. I have installed Exchange 2007 into a new test Domain and found in this forum that Exchange 2007 does not add the Exchange tabs to ADUC, and that the design is to allow mailbox management through the Exchange Management Console and the Management Shell only. (This aspect of the Exchange 2007 design REALLY "stinks," but that debate is beyond the scope of this posting.) When I install Exchange 2007 into my production environment, what will become of the existing ADUC installations that already contain the Exchange tabs? If an admin tries to use an ADUC instance that has the Exchange tabs, will that cause a problem? Would it actually create a mailbox in Exchange 2007, or would the attempt to create or manage a mailbox fail? Also, if a user is migrated to Exchange 2007 then the user accound is deleted with one of these old installations of ADUC (with the Exchange tabs), will the user's mailbox actually be deleted? Is there some tool I can run after my migration is complete that will strip the Exchange tabs from the existing ADUC installations? Thank you very much for your help with this.
December 18th, 2007 6:36pm

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