Changing The Recipient Type Of Exchange 2007 Mailbox…

Let’s say that you are new to Exchange 2007 and has created ConferenceRoom as a user mailbox rather than a room one. Do you need to delete it and create a new one with the same name? No. You don’t have to do that! We can use the shell to change the type of the…

Let’s say that you are new to Exchange 2007 and has created ConferenceRoom as a user mailbox rather than a room one. Do you need to delete it and create a new one with the same name?

No. You don’t have to do that! We can use the shell to change the type of the mailbox, say from user to a room one. Run the following command to achieve the same.

Set-Mailbox conferenceroom -Type Room

You can also convert it to an equipment mailbox if you want.

Set-Mailbox conferenceroom -Type Equipment

This is not a one way conversion. You can convert a room mailbox back into a user one as well. Basically you can convert it back and forth as much as you like!

Set-Mailbox conferenceroom -Type Regular

Note that for setting the type of a mailbox as a user one, the switch is -Type Regular and not User.

2 Comments

  1. Wow! That was easy!! Thank you!!!

    1. Rajith Enchiparambil says:

      Glad to help Thom.

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