Exchange Mailbox won't Create

Clarifications

Are you running the latest service packs for Windows Server 2003 and Exchange 2003?

Is the information store database online and
mounted?

Check to ensure that all Exchange services have started up and are running

Try to right click on the user object in ADUC and select Exchange Tasks and create mailbox from there to see if the mailbox will get created that way for that specific user.

Can you create other objects in AD, such as users?

How are you checking to see that the mailbox is not created?

If you're creating or mail-enabling a user, and then immediately looking in Exchange System Manager and digging down to the mailbox store and expecting to see a mailbox, understand that Exchange 2003 (and exchange 2000) does not create the mailbox until it has to -- i.e. when it has something to put in the mailbox or when the user accesses the mailbox with Outlook or OWA.

So depending on when/how you're looking for the mailbox, this may be normal behaviour. Make sure you can ACCESS the mailbox as the user before you raise any flags.

The mailbox does not show up as created until it recieves it's first mail!

Sorry guys,,, When i checked the premissions of the account once i created it ( which i never normally check right a way )All i saw was SELF so i jumped to conculsions when i saw that all other accounts had the appropriate security groups.

After accessing the box once,, permissions started flowing down.

Thanks for all the help.

Knowing is half the battle..