Hosted Exchange::CreateBusinessUser

This procedure creates a business user. Over-loaded method to maintain backward compatiability. The procedure can also perform the following optional tasks:

Set the user's password.
Make the user an admin of the organization.
Create a mailbox for the user and mail enable the user.

Arguments

Remarks

Method Syntax

public string CreateBusinessUser(
						string container, string userPrincipalName, 
						string samAccountName, string displayName,string givenName, 
						string middleName,string sn, string initials, 
string description, 
						string planName, string newPassword, bool isAdmin, 
string alias, string propertiesXmlStr, 
string proxyAddressesXmlStr, 
string preferredDomainController)

Sample Code

Example XML Response

MPS XML Response in string format.

<response>
  <data>
	<preferredDomainController>AD01.fabrikam.com</preferredDomainController>
   <container>LDAP://OU=alpineskihouse,OU=WH,OU=Hosting,DC=fabrikam,DC=Com</container>
..<omitted for brevity>
  </data>
</response>

Typical C# Usage

//Get user name and password.						 
		string userName = this.Request.ServerVariables.Get("AUTH_USER");
		string pass = this.Request.ServerVariables.Get("AUTH_PASSWORD");
		//Set credentials.
		hostedExch.PreAuthenticate = true;
		hostedExch.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName,pass);

		lblMsg.InnerHtml = mpsResponseHeaderLabel;
		//Display response.
		this.mpsResponse.DocumentSource = "";
		response = hostedExch.CreateBusinessUser(container,userPrinicipalName,samAcctName,displayName, givenName, middleName, lastName, initials, description, planName,password,isAdmin,alias, propertiesXmlStr,proxyAddressesXml, preferredDomainController);
					
// set the response XML to match the return from MPF
		responseXml.LoadXml(response);
		this.mpsResponse.Document = responseXml;
lblDone.InnerText = successMsg;

Applies To