Exchange 2000, Outlook, and OWA

[mainmast]

Hi all,

I am having problems with a server I maintain on my campus. It is running Windows 2000 Server, Exchange 2000, IIS, MySQL, and more. Hopefully during the summer we will be able to find time to upgrade the server to 2003 as we already have the OS. Anyways, I'm experiencing a few problems:

Outlook Web Access is not working with some users in the Active Directory. They are mail enabled and so is the HTTP protocol for OWA. When I enter their username and password to login it says the credentials are incorrect. The same settings work if I create a profile in Outlook, but not OWA. I could pick another person and they would work on OWA. I'm confused.

Previous to about a month ago Exchange would automatically create the mailboxes for new users in the AD. Now, it does not. I have to add them to outlook for it to create the mailbox, and with an AD of over 1500 objects adding and modifying it constantly you can see how it would become tedious to have to do this for every user. Anyone know how to fix it to Exchange will automatically create the mailbox upon creation of a user in the AD?


Thanks!

 

[Niksen]

send a mail to the new user, that will make exchange create the mailbox.

brgds Nicolai

 

[58sniper]

As for some accounts working and some not, have you looked to see if the ones that DO work are homed on that server, and the ones that DON'T are homed on other servers? It should redirect things, but I'm curious to see if that's it.

Pat Richard, MCSE(2) MCSA:Messaging, CNA(2)

 

[paulha]

Anyone know how to fix it to Exchange will automatically create the mailbox upon creation of a user in the AD?"

Rebuilding the recipient update service worked for me

Paul