Exchange 2010 and Active Directory

Hello!

I went through a painful Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 migration and faced a new problem - the utility I used for Active Directory management does not support Exchange 2010. Please advice a piece of software that could help (I run network for less than 1000 users).

Features I need to be included:

Establish, remove mailboxes, remove Exchange-specific properties from AD objects, provision mailboxes. (web interface would be a plus)

Thank you.

From serverfault hellbent

• What tool are you using?

  If you are using a third-party tool, contact the vendor. They may have an update, however it may require a paid upgrade since you did upgrade your infrastructure application.

  What about the included Exchange System Manager? That's what it's designed for? If that is what you're using, you'll need to install the 2010 version.

  Finally, don't neglect Powershell and PowerGUI. Scripting is powerful.

  hellbent : I used manageengine. They stopped on 2007.
  From gWaldo

• Microsoft removed the Exchange integrations for Active Directory Users & Computers as of Exchange 2007. If you had the Exchange 2003 plugins, they kind of worked for reviewing settings but shouldn't have been used for changing things. Exchange System Manager and the Exchange Powershell are the methods Microsoft recommends for managing Exchange.

  From sysadmin1138

• Adaxes - their new version supports Exchange 2010, automates mailbox creation. But this is paid software, though it has free evaluation period. Consider Exchange System Manager & PowerShell first.

  hellbent : Thank you. I needed one console to deal with everything.
  From

• Establish, remove mailboxes, remove Exchange-specific properties from AD objects, provision mailboxes. (web interface would be a plus)

  Theses are all tasks that can be accomplished via the native tools that come with exchange 2010 and or basic windows tools. For instance to create a new user in AD and create a mailbox you would use the new-mailbox cmdlet, as nother example to remove the properties ( I suspect you are refering to the old "remove exchange attributes" option in 2003) use disable-mailbox -Identity Windows.Username from within the management shell.

  I would suspect that the reason the tools you were using do not have updates is because they are simply no longer needed as the functionality is easy enough to accomplish with the native tools.

  From Jim B