In VB 2005 I used to create a mailbox for a user during the user creation by doing an addrequest with a directory entry. I would add in these 2 direcotry entries to the addrequest
Dim userhomeMDB As New DirectoryAttribute("homeMDB", txtuserhomeMDB)
Dim usermsExchHomeServerName As New DirectoryAttribute("msExchHomeServerName", txtusermsExchHomeServerName)
and viola! a mailbox would be created with the user.
I am now switching to C# 2008 and am creating the user by extending UserPrincipal to include a bunch of extra properties (I will include some samples below) and principalcontext. To make a long story short, so far the only extra properties that are causing issues are the 2 listed above. Here are what they look like in the extended version of UserPrincipal.
/// Gets or sets the homeMDB (exchange) value for this principal
[
DirectoryProperty("homeMDB")]
public string homeMDB
{
get
{
object[] result = this.ExtensionGet("homeMDB");
return GetStringFromExtensionResults(result);
}
set
{
this.ExtensionSet("homeMDB", value);
}
}
/// Gets or sets the msExchHomeServerName (exchange) value for this principal
[
DirectoryProperty("msExchHomeServerName")]
public string msExchHomeServerName
{
get
{
object[] result = this.ExtensionGet("msExchHomeServerName");
return GetStringFromExtensionResults(result);
}
set
{
this.ExtensionSet("msExchHomeServerName", value);
}
}
I don't think the syntax is the issue. I have a good 20-30 other attributes such as mailNickname, postalCode, extendedAttribute1 that all work just fine, but as soon as I try to create the user with the 2 exchange attributes it blows up. Anyway, is anyone else doing something similar or is there a recommended way to create exchange mailboxes in 2008? I am really striking out on Google for someone else that is doing this. The exchange version is 2003.
Thanks
JG
