Exchange 2010 ships with a number of test cmdlets to test the CAS functionality, like testing Outlook, OWA, ActiveSync, POP, IMAP etc. But whenever you try and run a test cmdlet like Test-OutlookConnectivity, it will complain that it can’t find a test mailbox.
Exchange 2010 ships with a script to create a test mailbox to run these test cmdlets. It’s named “New-TestCASConnectivityUser.ps1” and is stored in the \Scripts directory. I ran this script in my lab only to be greeted with an error!
CreateTestUser : Mailbox could not be created. Verify that OU (Users) exists and that password meets complexity requirements.
I am sure that the password I entered was a complex one. That left me with the second half of the error message. I do have a “Users” OU and hence I took a look at the script only to find that the OU name is coded as “Users”. As I have (and many other companies have) more than one OU named “Users”, the script throws the error message.
There are number of solutions for this issue.
- Edit your OU structure so that there is only one OU named “Users”.
- Edit the script with the distinguished name of the OU named “Users”.
- If you have a specific OU for test/service accounts, specify the DN of that OU in the script.
Once I made the changes, I was able to create the test account successfully using the script.
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