Setting Up Mobile Accounts to For Users Who Already Exist

Question

Hi there,
I work for a company with about 10 Macs, all laptops, all are on 10.5.
They have never had a server and have asked me to set one up for them. I am in the process of setting up a server here with a new copy of OS X Server 10.5. Here's my question.
The people here are half-wits and any kind of backup which involves them, you know, actually doing anything is never going to happen.
My thought was to set up Mobile accounts for all of them s this provides seamless syncing and no issues if they leave their office, The problem seems to be to set up a mobile account seems to require a new user where all the people here already have home folders/stuff on their personal laptops (we don't share computers). The user I create on Open Directory seem, even if i give them the same details of the current user on their laptops, to be different. Is there a way to make this work or should I just make them all Time Machine backups to the server instead?
Thanks,
Ben

Answer 1

So create a csv file with the following headers and data
UserID, Alias
UserID should be the user SamAccountName, and the Alias is the Mailbox Alias that you want to set. Supposing that the csv file is named users.csv and located under C:\ , open the Exchange Management Console and run:
$users = Import-Csv c:\users.csv
Foreach ($user in $users) {
Enable-Mailbox -Identity $user.UserID -alias $user.alias -database 'DB1'
Set-Mailbox -Identity $user.UserID -IssueWarningQuota 1.5gb -ProhibitSendQuota 2gb 
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