Article ID: 252088
Article Last Modified on 2/26/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q252088
SYMPTOMS
After you create a mailbox-enabled user in the Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, you may notice that the Exchange Installable File System (IFS) directory for the user's mailbox is not created, (by default, this is located in the M:\domain_name\MBX folder).
Any attempt to access the mailbox through the file system returns a "path not found" error message.
CAUSE
Mailbox activity has not occurred, and therefore the mailbox has not been initialized.
RESOLUTION
If you log on to the newly created mailbox using a MAPI-based client (such as Microsoft Outlook 2000), or if you send a mail item to the new mailbox from another user, then the issue described above ceases because the mailbox is initialized by any of the two actions.
-Or-
If you log in from Outlook Web access, this also creates the mailbox.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
Keywords: kbbug kbnofix KB252088
