Determine if mailbox is a 'resource' or user

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When you create an appointment programmatically you can specify the type for
each recipient (olResource, olRequired etc).

Is there a way of finding out if a mailbox is a resource like a room or
piece of equipment? I noticed that Exchange 2007 has new mailbox types
specifically for rooms and equipment - does this make a difference in
retrieving mailbox properties?

Thanks, Tad
 
Resource Mailboxes are functionally no different than other Mailboxes from
Exchange's perspective. However, any Mailbox you open with an Outlook
profile can be specially configured to do things like automatically accept
meeting requests. I imagine these settings are stored either in the Outlook
profile containing that Mailbox, or on the Mailbox object itself. Where they
are exactly though I'm not sure.

When and where is your code trying to figure this out?
 
Hi Eric,

Thanks for the reply. My goal is to retrieve a bunch of mailboxes from the
GAL and separate them into resources and users. Maybe this can/must be done
through a query of the AD.

Tad
 
Thanks, Eric - that's an interesting article though it looks impossible for
an Exchange 2003 environment and not that reliable for mixed environments.

Tad
 
Sorry if I wasn't clear - it seems to me from reading the article that the
attributes mentioned are not available in Exchange 2003 (hence my use of
'impossible'). Also, if your environment includes both mailboxes on Exchange
2007 and older legacy versions of the server you will end up with helpful
attributes for those mailboxes created in Exchange 2007 (or correctly
migrated to Exchange 2007) and either 'legacy' or 'linked' for all others
(hence my use of 'unreliable').
 
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