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Configuring 'Create Exchange Mailbox' Action

You can minimize the steps necessary to create Exchange mailboxes via the corresponding action on Home page. For this purpose, you need to configure the action parameters to specify default of pre-set values for them.

To configure the 'Create Exchange Mailbox' action on the Home page:

  1. Launch the Adaxes Web Interface Configuration Tool on the computer, where the Web Interface is installed.

    How:

    Windows 7 and earlier:

    • Open the Windows Start menu.
    • Click All Programs > Softerra Adaxes 2017.1 > Web Interface > Web Interface Customization.

    Windows 8 and 8.1:

    • Open the Start screen.
    • Start typing Web Interface Customization.
    • Press Enter.

    Windows 10:

    • Open the Windows Start menu.
    • Click All apps > Softerra Adaxes 2017.1 > Web Interface Customization.
  2. In Interface type drop-down list, select the type of the Web Interface you want to customize and click the General tab.

  3. Select the Actions pane check-box and click the Configure Home Page Actions button.

  4. In the Home Page Actions dialog that opens, click the Add button below to create a new action.

    The actions contained in the Actions pane can be organized into groups. To create a new action under a specific group, select this group before adding the action. To add a new group, click the Add Group button below, type group's name, and press Enter.
  5. In the Add Home Page Action wizard that opens, click Create Exchange Mailbox and click Next.

    Adaxes supports Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013.
  6. Provide the name, brief description, and confirmation text for the new action. Click Next.

    If you don't want any confirmation to be displayed, leave the Confirmation field blank.
  7. After the operation is initiated, users will need to select the user accounts for which they want to create Exchange mailboxes. On this wizard step, you can configure options for the selection of user accounts.

    • To allow users to create Exchange mailboxes for multiple user accounts in one operation, select the Allow multiple selection option.

    • To allow users to create Exchange mailboxes only for the user accounts located under a specific container or OU, enable the Allow selecting only AD objects located under a specific OU or container option. Specify the DN (Distinguished Name) of the OU or container you need in the Container DN edit box.

      To get the DN of an AD objects, right-click the object you need in the Adaxes Administration Console. In the context menu, open the submenu of the Copy item, and click Copy DN. The DN of the selected Active Directory object will be copied to the clipboard.
      Container DN can be composed using value references. For example, you can specify the following value here: OU=%department%,DC=company,DC=com. In this case, the %department% value reference will be replaced with the Department property of the user, who performs the action. So, when a user, whose department is Sales, performs the action, the Container DN will be set to OU=Sales,DC=company,DC=com.
    • To allow users to create mailboxes only for the user accounts that match a specific LDAP filter, enable the When selecting the target OU or container, display only objects that match the specified LDAP filter option.

      To construct an LDAP filter, you can use the LDAP Filter Builder. To access it, click Find on the toolbar in the Adaxes Administration Console, activate the LDAP Search tab, and click the embedded button in the Enter LDAP filter field.

    Click Finish.

  8. Click Apply two times.

There is no need to restart IIS to apply the changes, as the changes are applied automatically.

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