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How to create Resource mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007.

If you would like to read the next part in this article series please go to Managing Resource Mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007 (Part 2)

In this article we will be looking at how to create Resource Mailboxes using the Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management Shell, how to convert a Regular Mailbox into a Resource Mailbox, and finally we will identify the differences between a Resource Mailbox and a Regular Mailbox.
Creating Resource Mailboxes using the Exchange Management Console

Setting up a full mailbox permission with either the Exchange Management Shell or Exchange Management Console.

In the last article we saw how to create a resource mailbox and enable it to be accessed by a specific user through the add-mailboxpermission cmdlet. At that time we were not able to do this through the Exchange Management Console, nowadays with Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 we can use it.