Creating Mail Plan on MPS Server

This document is an example of how to create a new Mail Plan on MPS Server (Server2, i.e MS Exchange Server )

1. Remove the read-only attribute and then edit <installdir>:\Program Files\Microsoft Hosting\Provisioning\Samples\Hosted Exchange Namespace\CreateMailboxPlan.XML. The following example shows the XML in the shipped version of this file:

<request xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<procedure xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>

<execute namespace="Hosted Exchange" procedure="CreateMailboxPlan" impersonate="1">

<executeData>

<planName>PopMail</planName>

<planDescription>POP3 Mail</planDescription>

<planCategories>

<category>

<categoryName>HeBusiness</categoryName>

</category>

<category>

<categoryName>HeConsumer</categoryName>

</category>

</planCategories>

<planFeatures>

<feature>

<featureName>OWA</featureName>

<featureDescription>Outlook Web Access Disabled</featureDescription>

<featureValue>1</featureValue>

</feature>

<feature>

<featureName>IMAP</featureName>

<featureDescription>IMAP Access Disabled</featureDescription>

<featureValue>1</featureValue>

</feature>

<feature>

<featureName>POP</featureName>

<featureDescription>POP Access Enabled</featureDescription>

<featureValue>0</featureValue>

</feature>

<feature>

<featureName>MailboxSize</featureName>

<featureDescription>Mailbox size in kilobytes</featureDescription>

<featureValue>10000</featureValue>

<unitDescription>kb</unitDescription>

</feature>

</planFeatures>

<preferredDomainController>AD01.fabrikam.com</preferredDomainController>

</executeData>

<after source="executeData" destination="data" mode="merge"/>

</execute>

</procedure>

</request>

2. Edit the <planName> element as follows:

3. Edit the <planDescription> element this way:

4. Edit the <preferredDomainController> value, where AD01.fabrikam.com is the full name of Active Directory domain controller server

5. The edited file should now look like the following:

<request xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<procedure xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>

<execute namespace="Hosted Exchange" procedure="CreateMailboxPlan" impersonate="1">

<executeData>

<planName>SimpleMail</planName>

<planDescription>Basic POP3 Mailbox</planDescription>

<planCategories>

<category>

<categoryName>HeBusiness</categoryName>

</category>

<category>

<categoryName>HeConsumer</categoryName>

</category>

</planCategories>

<planFeatures>

<feature>

<featureName>OWA</featureName>

<featureDescription>Outlook Web Access Disabled</featureDescription>

<featureValue>1</featureValue>

</feature>

<feature>

<featureName>IMAP</featureName>

<featureDescription>IMAP Access Disabled</featureDescription>

<featureValue>1</featureValue>

</feature>

<feature>

<featureName>POP</featureName>

<featureDescription>POP Access Enabled</featureDescription>

<featureValue>0</featureValue>

</feature>

<feature>

<featureName>MailboxSize</featureName>

<featureDescription>Mailbox size in kilobytes</featureDescription>

<featureValue>10000</featureValue>

<unitDescription>kb</unitDescription>

</feature>

</planFeatures>

<preferredDomainController>AD01.fabrikam.com</preferredDomainController>

</executeData>

<after source="executeData" destination="data" mode="merge"/>

</execute>

</procedure>

</request>

6. Save the edited file in the in the <installdir>:\Program Files\Microsoft Hosting\Provisioning\Samples\Hosted Exchange Namespace\ directory as CreateSimpleMailPlan.xml.

7. From a command prompt in the <installdir>:\Program Files\Microsoft Hosting\Provisioning\Samples\Hosted Exchange Namespace\ directory, execute provtest CreateSimpleMailPlan.XML (ProvTest.exe is located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Provisioning\Tools).

You now have a mailbox plan called SimpleMail, which enables a 10 MB mailbox for use by POP3 clients. This plan will show up as available to add to new organizations. Also you can edit other features like MailboxSize.