Exchange 2000 Server provides an extension to the Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) called Collaboration Data Objects for Exchange Management (CDOEXM). The aim of this extension is to ease the management of some Exchange 2000 components from ADSI. (The Microsoft TechNet white paper "Automating Exchange 2000 Management with Windows Script Host" at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/exchange2000/maintain/featusability/ex2kwsh.asp?frame=true covers this technology in depth.)
In Exchange 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft made a small but extremely useful CDOEXM enhancement that can help you manage mailbox security. You can use this new CDOEXM feature from Windows Script Host (WSH).
What Is CDOEXM?
CDOEXM provides objects and interfaces for the management of many Exchange 2000 components. For example, you can use CDOEXM to configure Exchange servers and public and mailbox stores, mount and dismount stores, and create and configure mailboxes. More than simply an extension of ADSI, CDOEXM is also an extension of CDO for Exchange 2000 (CDOEX). At the server level, CDOEXM retrieves specific information about the server (e.g., the message-tracking state, server version), as well as the storage groups (SGs) present on the server and stores present in the SGs. From the perspective of a user object, CDOEXM exposes properties and methods to manage the Exchange 2000 mailbox (e.g., garbage-collection information, quota settings, mailbox creation and deletion information). To avoid confusion between CDOEXM and CDOEX, remember that CDOEXM exposes information and management features related to the containers of the mail server components (i.e., server, SGs, mailboxes), whereas CDOEX exposes information and management features related to the elements constituting the mail information (i.e., messages). . . .
