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Creating Exchange 2013 Mailbox in C#

Holy moly it’s been a long time since I posted.  Here’s a quick code snippet on using C# to create a mailbox to hopefully kick a string of posts off.  This creates an AD account for the user unlike my previous article on creating a mailbox in Exchange 2010.  And since I listed a gotcha in that article, I’ll leave a tip in this one after the code. 😀

var psc = new PSCommand();

psc.AddCommand("New-Mailbox");
psc.AddParameter("Name", newUser.UserName);
psc.AddParameter("UserPrincipalName", upn);
psc.AddParameter("Alias", upn);
psc.AddParameter("PrimarySmtpAddress", string.Format("{0}@{1}", newUser.UserName, domainName).ToLower());
psc.AddParameter("OrganizationalUnit", domainDn);
psc.AddParameter("SamAccountName", samAccount);
psc.AddParameter("Password", _ps.CreateSecurePassword("mysupersecretpassword"));
psc.AddParameter("DomainController", domainController);

PowerShell ps = PowerShell.Create();
ps.Commands = psc;

try
{
    var result = ps.Invoke();
    if (!ps.HadErrors)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Congrats! User created successfully");
    }
}
catch (RemoteException ex)
{
   //Error conditions here...
}

Easy enough.  Now for the tip.  If you specify the PrimarySmtpAddress it will automatically set the EmailAddressPolicyEnabled value to false.  So leave that parameter out if it’s important for your org.