How Do I Create New Mailboxes On Exchange Accounts? Print

There are two ways to create a new mailbox on YOUR COMPANY Exchange accounts:

• Create a new user together with an Exchange mailbox
• Enable Exchange for an existing user

Note: if you are on an Enterprise Exchange 2010/2013/2016 plan and would like to create mailboxes assigned to a specific location, read the Knowledge Base article on Exchange 2010/2013: How Do I Create Mailboxes At A Specific Site Location?

Option #1. Creating new users together with Exchange mailboxes

To create new mailboxes, log in to CONTROL PANEL and go to Services > Mailboxes. Click on Create User.

To create a single mailbox:

1. Tick the boxes next to the services you would like to enable for a user.
   Note: it is possible to create users without any services turned on, you can turn them on later.
2. Specify the display name that you would like to use. The display name normally consists of the user's first and last name.
3. Review the first part of the email address - it will be filled out automatically - and change it if needed.
4. Select the desired domain name from the drop-down list next to the email address field. If you do not see the desired domain name there, it means it has not been added yet to the domain list on the account. Click on Add domain next to the domain drop-down list and it will re-direct you to the page where you can manage your domain names. 
   Read the Knowledge Base article on How Do I Add A Domain To My Exchange Account? for more information.
   Note: having added a new domain, you will have to start the mailbox creation procedure over again from scratch.
5. If needed, change the email address that the password for the new mailbox will be sent to (for more information on how the users' passwords are generated and managed, see the section Managing passwords below).
6. Click Create.
   

Note: you can also create a new user by copying the set of settings from an existing user. 

To do it this way, go to Services > Mailboxes > click on the little arrow next to Create User and choose Copy from existing user:

Then choose the existing user you would like to copy from and click Select.

The following properties will be copied:

• Services enabled for an existing user
• Distribution Lists Membership 
• Organizational Unit

You will only need to specify the Display Name, Email Address, and Password for a new user.

Important: My Services User permissions will not be copied from an existing user. You will need to specify them after the user has been created. Read the Knowledge Base article on My Services User Permissions for more information.

To create multiple mailboxes at once:

To create multiple mailboxes at once, use either of the following options:

• When creating a single user, click on Add another user before hitting Create and fill out all the appropriate fields.
• Create mailboxes from a TXT file using our Mass User Import Tool. Read the Knowledge Base article on Mass User Import for more information.