Exchange

[Gaffer]

Can anyone send me a step by step instructions for creating accounts/groups in Exchange 5.5 and 2000 please...?

I know how to change passwords via AD but need to know how to create/manage accounts. I got lost when MS started going on about forests and trees.

Any other hits/tips/tricks you can provide would be handy as well...

Cheers
Claire

[_DJ_]

Gaffer said:

Can anyone send me a step by step instructions for creating accounts/groups in Exchange 5.5 and 2000 please...? I know how to change passwords via AD but need to know how to create/manage accounts. I got lost when MS started going on about forests and trees. Any other hits/tips/tricks you can provide would be handy as well... Cheers Claire

Claire,

The best place for that sort of information is www.microsoft.com/exchange or /technet.
The difference is in the way in which the mail system is integrated with the user account database.

In Exchange 5.5 and you use Exchange Administrator to create a user account or distribution list
In Exchange 2000/3 you use the same tool as you do to manage users - Active Directory Users and Computers. A Distribution list in Exchange 2000 is effectively an Active Directory group.

Edited to add: If you need any clarification around anything that you've read, either post it on here or PM me. It's all really quite simple but I'm sure technical authors try to complicate it!

Darren.


>> Edited by _DJ_ on Tuesday 16th March 23:59

[duntonsr]

I'll second that.

It's probably much easier to talk you though it, than give you a pile of technical refernce to go through

Drop me a PM and I'll help you if I can.


Steve

[Gaffer]

Cool cheers guys.

I was looking at the MS exchange site and thats what confused me with the references to woods/trees

Claire

[_DJ_]

Gaffer said:

Cool cheers guys. I was looking at the MS exchange site and thats what confused me with the references to woods/trees Claire

I'm afraid you're going to get that when looking at anything vaguely related to Exchange 2000 or 2003. I presume this is related to a job you're looking at/have got? If you want to ask any specific questions, or just a non-technobabble description of a concept that Microsoft describe, just post!