Create a mailbox filter view in Exchange 2007

In particular, for the company's larger system managers, the EXCHANGE2007 Management console to strengthen the consolidation of "Mailbox View" function, is undoubtedly a major victory. Create a "Mailbox Filtering View" feature that can effectively simplify the process of locating and managing in Exchange2007 mailboxes.

Mailbox filtering viewing can be done according to the properties set by your Active Directory. For example, you want to create a mailbox filtering view that displays only the mailboxes of all employees in the company's marketing department on the Exchange console.

Here's a description of all the new products about Microsoft, such as Exchange Server2007,longhorn server,windows Vista, and even to some extent office 2007 is using the Active Directory Have a big fuss over previous versions of Windows on their properties. If you want to make a difference later on, you must learn how to take advantage of the Active Directory and maintain the authenticity, reliability, and integrity of the data on the Active Directory.

How to create a mailbox filter view in Exchange Server2007

1. Open the Exchange Management Console and locate the recipient configuration-Mailbox option in the console tree. When you select the Mailbox container, the list of all the organizations in exchange is displayed in the window. As shown in Figure A.

　　

Figure A: Click the "Create Filter" button to create a mailbox filter view

2. Click the "Create Filter" button to see a series of contents in the Drop-down menu at the top of the screen.

3. Select an Active Directory attribute from the first Drop-down menu, and then select a corresponding condition from the second Drop-down menu. For example, if you want to create a filter for all employees in the marketing department of the company, you have to choose the word "department" as the property of the retrieval and select "Same as the preceding paragraph" in the second option.

4. In the final step, you can enter the word "marketing department". As shown in Figure B.

　　

Figure B: Create a filter formula to filter the mailbox view

5. Click the "Add Expression Formula" button.

6. If this is the result you want, click the "Apply for Filter" button to see what you want, and if you want to further narrow the look, you'll also need to create another expression to do it.

7. When you want to do things done, and then click the "Cancel Filter" button, and then back to the general interface of the mailbox.