All Hybrid Administration Tutorials
- How to configure your desktop PC for Hybrid Exchange - Office 365 - Azure Administration - Link
- How to connect to Hybrid Exchange - Office 365 - Azure AD and Local AD via PowerShell - Link
- Hybrid Management - Part 01 - Creating local User mailboxes - Link
- Hybrid Management - Part 02 - Creating local Exchange Shared Mailboxes - Link
- Hybrid Management - Part 03 - Creating local Exchange Room and Equipment Mailboxes - Link
- Hybrid Management - Part 04 - Configure the Hybrid Connection Wizard - Link
- Hybrid Management - Part 05 - Individual mailbox moves via the EAC - Link
- Hybrid Management - Part 06 - Bulk mailbox moves via the EAC - Link
- Hybrid Management - Part 07 - Moving bulk mailboxes with PowerShell - Link
- Hybrid Management - Part 07 - Moving bulk mailboxes with PowerShell - Link
- Hybrid Management - Part 08 - Creating Office 365 User Mailboxes via PowerShell - Link
Pre-requisites
Preparation Guides
- Follow the guides below to ensure your PC should is configured for Hybrid Administration -
How to configure your desktop PC for Hybrid Exchange - Office 365 - Azure Administration - Link
How to connect to Hybrid Exchange - Office 365 - Azure AD and Local AD via PowerShell - Link
Downloads -
My Hybrid Office 365 Administration Pack - Download Link
My Hybrid Connection Script - Download Link
Tutorials in this series -
As this is Part 03 of my series of tutorials on Hybrid Management, it is highly recommended that you are familiar with the process of creating Local Exchange User Mailboxes which is discussed in the previous tutorial -
Hybrid Management - Part 01 - Creating local User mailboxes - Link
Hybrid Management - Part 02 - Creating local Exchange Shared Mailboxes - Link
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Introduction -
As you are already familiar creating Local Exchange User Mailboxes and Local Exchange Shared Mailboxes, we will jump straight into the process for creating Local Exchange Room and Equipment mailboxes.
The basic process for creating all local Exchange mailboxes is very similar, apart from a few small differences. In fact, if you compare the the csv files used in the creation of these objects, you will see there are only a few changes. Of course there is no Password column as Shared, Room and Equipment mailboxes are disabled by default.
All spreadsheets for all local Exchange mailbox creations have three permissions columns -
- Full Access
- Send As
- Send on Behalf.
Only the Rooms and Equipment spreadsheet has the Booking Delegate and Resource Capacity columns as well as the Full Access, Send As and Send on Behalf.
Note that the Office column is in all spreadsheets, but is displayed as the Location field in any Room and Equipment Exchange objects
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Local Room and Equipment Mailbox Creation -
Editing the csv file with your Room and Equipment Mailbox details*** Note that the process for editing the csv files is the same for both Rooms and Equipment ***
For simplification, we will review the process for the Room creation in the following steps.
To create Equipment mailboxes, the process is exactly the same, only the script is different.
Creating room mailboxes -
To start creating local Exchange Mailboxes, ensure you have already downloaded the following scripts and csv folders mentioned earlier in the pre-requisites section.
--- Hybrid Connection Script - Download Link
--- Hybrid Office 365 Administration Pack - Download Link
Extract the folders in the Hybrid Office 365 Administration Pack zip file to the folder c:\scripts. Move each of the csv files to the root of c:\scripts.
Edit the LocalRoomMailboxes.csv with your data.
See the example below for guidance -
*** Notes for editing the LocalSharedMailboxes.csv file ***
The following fields MUST contain data to create a valid mailbox -
- Name ( This becomes the Display Name )
- UPN ( This becomes the login ID which matches the email address )
- Alias ( This must match the start of the email address / UPN)
- OU ( This is the Organizational Unit of where you are creating the user)
Although that is the minimum that is needed to actually create a mailbox, you would in normal practice use FirstName and LastName for ease of management.
Things to be aware of when updating the spreadsheet for Room and Equipment mailboxes.
Name
- This becomes the Display Name of the user's mailbox
UPN
- This becomes the login ID which needs to match the Primary SMTP address
Alias
- Ensure this matches the start for the email address / UPN
OU
- Ensure the Organisational Unit is correct
CustomAttribute1
- This can be used to simplify Enterprise Management - Link
SendAs
- Enter the UPN of the user (or email address of group) that needs Send As permission to the mailbox
- Ensure this user exists before running the script
FullAccess
- Enter the UPN of the user (or email address of group) that needs Full Access permission to the mailbox
- Ensure this user or group exists before running the script
SendOnBehalf
- Enter the UPN of the user (or email address of group) that needs SendOnBehalf permission to the mailbox
- Ensure this user or group exists before running the script
Manager
- Enter the Alias of the Manager (this is usually the UPN without the domain name.
- - Example
- UPN / Email address of the Manager - user.101@teamterry365.com
- Alias of the Manager - user.101
- Ensure this user or group exists before running the script
Country
- Note that you must use the two character code for the Country - Link
- - Example -
- AU - Australia
- US - United States
--- Special fields for Rooms and Equipment Mailboxes ---
Booking Delegate
- Enter the UPN of the user (or email address of group) that will be the Booking Delegate for the Room or Equipment
Note - If you leave the Booking Delegate field empty, the room or equipment mailbox will be set to AutoAccept
Resource Capacity -
- Enter the capacity of the Room or Equipment
Office
This is the Location of the Room or Equipment
The other fields are plain text fields which are self explanatory
- City
- Company
- Department
- HomePhone
- MobilePhone
- OfficePhone
- StreetAddress
- State
- PostalCode
- Country
- HomePage
- Fax
Once you have finished creating your csv file, save as C:\Scripts\LocalRoomMailboxes.csv
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Running the scripts for Local Exchange Shared Mailbox creation
Connect to your local Exchange, AD and Azure AD Connect server using this tutorial -
- How to connect to Hybrid Exchange - Office 365 - Azure AD and Local AD via PowerShell - Link
Run the script -
Open PowerShell ISE and connect using my Hybrid Connection script - (see above).
Open the folder - New-LocalRoomMailbox - Drag the PowerShell file to ISE ready to run after you have updated the csv file.
Once you have updated your csv, you can simply run the script by clicking the Play arrow.
When the script runs, you will see that it has created the mailboxes.
There will be a two minute delay while it sets delegate permissions if specified.
After the delay, the script will continue and apply the delegate permissions.
The screen will display the delegate permission changes.
Once the permission changes are performed, the script will run a delta update on your Azure AD Connect server.
The script will then advise that the local Shared Mailboxes have been created and synched to Office 365.
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Confirming creation of Room mailboxes
Log into the Local Exchange EAC and confirm the creation of the Room mailboxes.
You can also confirm the successful setting of delegated permissions by checking the mailboxes.
Now confirm the Booking Delegate (if selected)
- Note the setting - Select delegates who can accept or decline booking requests
Now confirm the room or equipment is set to AutoAccept (if no Booking Delegate is assigned).
- Note the setting - Accept or decline booking requests automatically.
-- Also note, that a delegate appears because that user has Send On Behalf permission.
Screenshot below shows a Room created with no Booking Delegate plus a Full Access User -
Now log in to the Office 365 EAC and confirm that Contacts have been created that correspond to the Local Exchange Mailboxes.
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Creating Equipment Mailboxes -
Follow the exact same process for creating Equipment mailboxes.
Equipment mailboxes will show under resources in the Local Exchange EAC
They will also appear as Mail Contacts in the Office 365 EAC
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Troubleshooting -
Error -
Set-ADUser : Identity info provided in the extended attribute: 'Manager' could not be resolved. Reason: 'Cannot find an object with identity: username@domain.com
Resolution -
Edit the csv file with alias of the Manager (Usually the start of the email address / UPN without the domain suffix)
Details -
Manager field in the csv file
- Enter the Alias of the Manager (this is usually the UPN without the domain name.)
- - Example
- UPN / Email address of the Manager - user.101@teamterry365.com
- Alias of the Manager - user.101
*** Note - A similar error will appear if you try to add a Manager or Delegate that does not exist ***
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Troubleshooting -
Error -
Organizational unit "internal.domain.com/Company/Users" was not found. Please make sure you have typed it correctly.
Resolution -
Edit the csv to have the correct path of the OU (Organizational Unit) that you need the User mailboxes to be created in.
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