Allocating Exchange resources for an organization by using XML

Use the AllocateOrganization procedure of the Exchange Resource Manager namespace to allocate storage for an organization. This storage becomes the pool from which mailbox and other allocations are made for individual objects of the organization.

This procedure expects to be called with impersonate="1". The procedure impersonates the caller.

Example of a request that calls the AllocateOrganization procedure

<request>
 <procedure>
   <execute namespace="Exchange Resource Manager" procedure="AllocateOrganization">
	 <executeData>
	 <organization>LDAP://ou=ExchOrg1,dc=contoso,dc=com</organization>
	 <publicStore>
		 <megabytes>100</megabytes>
	 </publicStore>
	 <mailStore>
		 <megabytes>200</megabytes>
		 <shared>1</shared>
	 </mailStore>
	 </executeData>
	 <after source="executeData" destination="data" mode="merge" />
   </execute>
 </procedure>
</request>

Input for AllocateOrganization

The following input is valid for this request:

LDAP path of the owning organization.
In the <organization> element, enter the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) path of the organization that will own the allocated resources.
```
<organization>LDAP://LDAP path of the owning organization</organization>
```
Storage for public folders
Use the <publicStore> element to specify the storage available for public folders. Set the <megabytes> parameter to specify the size of the storage.
```
<publicStore>
  <megabytes>Megabytes of storage available for public folders</megabytes>
</publicStore>
```
Storage for mail storage
Use the <mailStore> element to specify the storage available for mail. Set the <megabytes> parameter to specify the size of the storage. Set the <shared> parameter of <mailStore> to specify how the storage is to be allocated. If this parameter is 0, the organization is given its own mail store. If the parameter is any number other than 0, the organization is given part of a shared mail store.
```
<mailStore>
  <megabytes>Megabytes of storage available for public folders</megabytes>
  <shared>0|1>/shared>
</mailStore>
```

Typical response for AllocateOrganization

The response to this procedure does not contain significant data.

Important

Although Active Directory is not case sensitive for elements such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) path, XML is case sensitive. To ensure that the procedure executes appropriately, specify all tags, elements, and data using uppercase and lowercase letters exactly as shown in the XML examples. For additional guidelines on how to use XML, see the Microsoft Web site (http://www.microsoft.com/).