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What is a site mailbox?
A site mailbox lets you and your team save and access all content from a shared project in a single location that can be accessed only by site members. Site mailboxes are accessed through Outlook 2013 as well as SharePoint, and they give you easy access to the email and documents for your team projects.
What is mailbox in Microsoft Exchange?
User mailboxes are Exchange mailboxes that are associated with people, typically one mailbox per person. Each user mailbox has an associated Active Directory account that gives the person access to the mailbox to send and receive email messages, and create meetings and appointments.
A site mailbox is functionally comprised of SharePoint site membership (owners and members), shared storage through an Exchange 2016 or Exchange 2019 mailbox for email messages and a SharePoint site for documents, and a management interface that addresses provisioning and lifecycle needs.
Is a shared mailbox a resource mailbox?
Shared mailboxes can also be used to provide a common calendar, allowing multiple users to schedule and view calendar tasks. To use this type of resource mailbox requires all accessing users have active and forwarded Exchange accounts, and are using Outlook or OWA as their e-mail client 6.
How is the lifecycle of a site mailbox managed?
The lifecycle of a site mailbox is managed through SharePoint. It is through SharePoint that you should perform all site mailbox tasks such as creating and removing site mailboxes. In addition, you can create a SharePoint Lifecycle policy to manage the lifecycle of a site mailbox.
When was the site mailbox introduced in exchange?
The site mailbox, first introduced in Exchange 2013, is a solution for this problem. Site mailboxes improve collaboration and user productivity by allowing access to both Microsoft SharePoint 2013 documents and Exchange email using the same client interface.
When does Microsoft Exchange go out of support?
The end of this lifecycle is known as the product’s end of support. Because Exchange 2010 reached its end of support on October 13, 2020, Microsoft no longer provides: Technical support for problems that may occur. Bug fixes for issues that may impact the stability and usability of the server.
What happens to the site mailbox in SharePoint?
Manually deleting active site mailboxes from Exchange will result in orphaned site mailboxes. . When the lifecycle application in SharePoint closes a site mailbox, the site mailbox is retained for the period stated in the lifecycle policy in the closed state.