Deploying Exchange Server 2010 Hosting mode (Part 3)

Managing a Tenant Organization
Creating a Tenant Organization
Assuming I will use "HostingAllFeatures_Sample" for a new tenant.
1. At Mail1, log in as Domain Administrator.
2. Launch "Exchange Management Shell", enter the following cmdlet to create the administrator password as a secure string and save it in the variable named "$Password".

$Password = Read-Host "Enter Password" -AsSecureString

Figure 12: The Password for Administrator

Enter the password.

3. Enter the following cmdlet to create a new tenant:

New-Organization -Name "Abcoffee" -DomainName "abcoffee.com" -Location "en-us" -ProgramID HostingSample -OfferId 2 -AdministratorPassword $Password

Figure 13: Creating new tenant

4. Launch "Active Directory Users and Computers".

5. Expand "contoso.com > Microsoft Exchange Hosted Organizations > Abcoffee".

Figure 14: Abcoffee organization

A dedicated OU was created for the Abcoffee organization with its Administrator user and its own Security groups.

Creating mailboxes as a hosting company

1. At Mail1, log in as Domain Administrator.

2. Launch "Exchange Management Shell", enter the following cmdlet to create a mailbox:

New-Mailbox "Peter Pan" -UserPrincipalName PeterPan@abcoffee.com -Organization Abcoffee

Figure 15: Peter Pan's mailbox

3. Launch "Active Directory Users and Computers".

4. Expand "contoso.com > Microsoft Exchange Hosted Organizations > Abcoffee".

Figure 16: Peter Pan's user account

Peter Pan's account is created.

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