Exchange 2013: when I create a new user in 2012 AD no mailbox is created.

Question

Hi,
I have two VMs both running Windows server 2012 R2.
S1-DC.domain.local (GC)
S2-EMS.domain.local (Exchange 2013 CU2)
When I add a new user account from the Admin Center on S1-DC.domail.local, no Exchange 2013 mailbox is being created.
I can add the AD user to Exchange 2013 manually, but I assumed a mailbox would be created automatically when an account is created.
What would be the cause of this?
thanks,
Fultz.
Have a good day.

Answer 1

There is no automatic provisioning of mailboxes when you create an AD user.
To have that automatically done, you can develop a Powershell script that will run periodically (Example: Every hour), will identify the newly created AD accounts and will provision a mailbox for them.
More details if you ask them in Exchange forums: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/home?category=exchangeserver
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