I see a couple of other posts from people regarding this issue with the inability of an Administrator to create folders for other users using New-MailboxFolder, but it seems most people give up pretty quickly.

When trying to run New-MailboxFolder on another user's mailbox, I get an error that the Mailbox doesn't exist.

How can I get this command to actually work? I followed the instructions on the TechNet article to assign the necessary rights to my admin account (Organization Management and Recipient Management).

I am on Exchange 2013, and I am running the EMS as a privileged user that is not configured as a recipient.

Thanks!

Hi,

BY default, The cmdlet New-mailboxfolder cannot be used from EMS to create folders in another users mailbox, this cmdlet must be run in context of the user. Because this cmdlet assigned to type self management role.

Check the role assignment with below cmdlet

Get-ManagementRole -Cmdlet Get-MailboxFolder

Get-ManagementRole MyBaseIptions | fl *scope*

I recommend this blog for more information about this cmdlet.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/ilvancri/archive/2010/08/20/get-mailboxfolder-is-not-working-amp-exchange-web-services-getting-started.aspx

Best Regards.

Thank you, but, that just doesn't make much sense to me. User's don't use the EMS on the server, so I cannot figure out how this command would be even remotely useful to anyone BUT the administrator.

Plus, are you also suggesting using EWS to solve this issue? I'd have to say that is a "frustrating" option. EWS appears to be a developer's tool, and so now I have to spend some indeterminate amount of time to figure this tool out.

I'll just tell my manager it cannot be done.