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by bstroh

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I am setting up my first Exchange 2000 Server - So far I have been pretty successful with it - What I am trying to do is not upgrade or Migrate from my Exchange 5.5 server but do a clean setup to weed out all the garbage and settings from 2 network upgrades ago - My question is this - Once I had exchange server installed and I wanted to setup clients - When you right click on the client name in AD you get the Exchange options choice - You can either create a mailbox or create an address - whichever one you chose you cannot chose the other unless you delete the one - What I want to know is what is the differnce between the two and when should you use which one?
Am I making sense here? If I have to do a migration I will but I would rathertry not to unless there is some reason I really should -

Thank you
Barb

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by banyanman

I think this may help. When you right click on an account in AD and choose Exchange features you can either create a mailbox or an address. Creating a mailbox creates an actual mailbox on the exchange server and you can then choose which storage group the mailbox will reside. Now let's say you have two companies that merge together and all of your employees with email addresses user@companyA.com need to become user@companyB.com. Now outside contacts may still only have the old email addressfor your users. Creating a new address for the account allows email sent to user@companyA.com or user@companyB.com to go to the same mailbox. Of course both MX records will need to be pointed to the same exchange system. HTH

by an_it_guy

As far as i understand, creating a mailbox means creating an email address for that user that has <> kind of format; and creating an address means adding address to that user which is an external address-like <>
If this is what you mean, i guess a user can have both of these attributes at the same time, where the second will be his "Contact".
You can have two addresses for a single User!

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