Exchange 2000 Users

Exchange 5.5 worked extremely well. In fact, the directory structure (based upon a specification called X.500) was so good that the team responsible for developing Active Directory decided to use it instead of the Windows NT 4.0 domain structure. Thus, Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 became intimately tied together. You can use active directory without exchange (and many corporations do so) but you cannot run Exchange 2000 without active directory.

To create, delete and maintain email accounts for exchange you must use the Active Directory Users and Computers control panel. This program is very simple to use and contains excellent help so I will not go into the details here. 

Once you create an account, you can define the Exchange attributes (these were added to active directory by the Forestprep function when you installed Exchange 2000).

The Email Addresses tab allows you to define each of the email address for the user. You can define any recognized email message type: SMTP, X.400, Microsoft mail, CC mail and so on. Any messages sent to exchange with any of these email addresses will be placed into the mailbox of the account.

If you check the "Automatically update e-mail addresses based upon recipient policy" then email addresses will be automatically added and removed as internet domain names are entered in the Recipient Policies. 

For example, I own 193 domain names, all of which were entered in the default Recipient policy. Because my account is set to automatically update, all of these internet domain names may be used to reach me. 

You can add as many SMTP (or other) email addresses as you like. This is very useful, for example, if you want people to be able to reach you by your first and last name (richard.lowe), your last and first name (lowe.richard), and perhaps your initial and last name (rlowe).