Don't see all Exchange mailboxes after Unity user import

m.balastik · ‎01-31-2003

I am using Exmerge 2k to import users mailboxes yet I don't see all the exchange mailboxes. User accounts are in Unity. Even in Exchange System Manager, I don't see all the Exchange mailboxes. I saw this with my first install which wasn't an issue - I wasn't importing exchange mailboxes. (The mailboxes were created the first time a user logged into their Unity voicemail account.)

Even in Users and Computers I don't see the Exchange mailbox information. I do see e-mail addresses for the Exchange account.

I am running Unity 3.1.5, Exchange 2k (local and only Exchange server in the domain) and joined an existing AD domain.

Monica

lindborg · ‎01-31-2003

Are these mailboxes hidden from the address book by any chance? ExMerge doesn't deal with hidden mailboxes at this point (something I've taken up with the folks at Microsoft a while ago). Currently the only solution is to unhide the mailboxes and then import/export from/to PST files and then hide them again.

If this is what you're experiencing then you can use the message store manager on www.CiscoUnityTools.com to bulk hide/unhide these users in the address book (works for 2K, doesn't currently work with 55).

If that's not your case we'll have to take a closer look at what's going on.

m.balastik · ‎01-31-2003

I don't know if they are hidden from the address book and I don't know where to look to see if they are hidden.

They aren't hidden in the old 55 exchange server where the pst file is from. I am only testing with one account at the moment - mine!

Monica

lindborg · ‎01-31-2003

if ExMerge isn't showing you a mailbox to import the PST file into the only reasons I can think of for this is the mailbox resource hasn't been created by Exchange (could be a RUS issue) or the mailbox is hidden in the address book. You can check the address book thing in ADUC - look at the properties for a user and on the "Exchange Advanced" tab there will be a checkbox there that says "Hide from Exchange Address list".

If the mailbox resource hasn't been created that'd be odd - it's normally a RUS problem with child domains or an E2K system without recent SPs but even then it'll create them eventually, it just takes a long time (i.e. an hour) for it to get around to adding the mailbox stuff. Here's a link on what the RUS is:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wss/wss/sgw_addressing_RUS.asp

And another for one possible scenario where it's not adding mailbox resources to new objects:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b317654

something to start with anyway...

m.balastik · ‎01-31-2003

Okay, I checked to see if the checkbox "Hide from Exchange Address list" is checked off and no it is not.

I looked at the links you sent me and I am following what is says to do in the second link. The RUS is currently set to run immediately. I loaded the users into the Unity database before Christmas so I am sure there has been plenty of time for everything to synchronize between Unity and Exchange.

I will let you know how it things are once the RUS has rebuilt.

BTW E2K has the recommended latest SPs.

Monica

m.balastik · ‎01-31-2003

I let the RUS run on the child domain and I still do not see the mailbox information in the ADUC. For my account I removed the exchange attributes and then created a new Exchange account, readded my account to Unity and everything is there.

What is my next step?

Monica