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Create an Exchange 2013 mailbox

To simplify configuration of Exchange 2013 and to help test your new server later on, you need to create an Exchange 2013 mailbox. We’ll make this new mailbox a member of the Organization Management role group and you’ll use this mailbox when you configure Exchange 2013.

Later on in the checklist you’ll need to log into your Exchange 2013 servers. Log in using the Exchange 2013 mailbox you’ll create in this step. This will make sure you have the correct permissions to perform each of the steps and that the EAC opens correctly.

How do I do this?

Open the EAC by browsing to the URL of your Client Access server. For example, https://Ex2013CAS/ecp?ExchClientVer=15.

Important:

You need to include ?ExchClientVer=15 in the URL when you want to open the EAC with a user that doesn’t have an Exchange 2013 mailbox.
Open the EAC by browsing to the URL of your Client Access server. For example, https://Ex2013/ecp?ExchClientVer=15.

In my case https://Exchange/ecp?ExchClientVer=15 which resolves to

Important:
You need to include `?ExchClientVer=15` in the URL when you want to open the EAC with a user that doesn’t have an Exchange 2013 mailbox.

Enter the user name and password of the account you used to install Exchange 2013 in Domain\user name and Password, and then click Sign in.
I used the domain account so we’ll log in with the domain user account.

Go to Recipients > Mailboxes. On the Mailboxes page, click Add and then select User mailbox.

Provide the information required for the new user and then click Save.

Note, I placed this Exchange user in the SBS Organizational unit under SBSUsers

Go to Permissions > Admin Roles. On the Admin Roles page, select Organization Management and click Edit .
(the edit is the pencil icon

Under Members, click Add .

Select the Exchange 2013 mailbox you just created, click Add, then click OK. Then click Save.

How do I know this worked?

To verify that you’ve successfully created an Exchange 2013 mailbox and added it as a member of the Organization Management role group, do the following:

In the EAC, go to Permissions > Admin Roles. On the Admin Roles page, select Organization Management.
In the details pane, view the Members list. If the Exchange 2013 mailbox has been successfully added as a member of the Organization Management role group, the mailbox will be listed here.

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