Are you sure? http://help.outlook.com/140/ee441202.aspx
"In Office 365, shared mailboxes don't require a licence." There's a few caveats with that, e.g. the Shared Mailboxes are smaller. I've seen this confirmed elsewhere and it's always been my understanding that Shared Mailboxes don't need a licence in Office 365. Steve From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: 05 July 2012 16:25 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Shared mailboxes Here's the odd thing about this whole process. I had thought that these shared mailboxes would be the solution to our issue, but turns out they won't be. Background: I work for the state of California. We're currently in the middle of a major migration from Novell/Groupwise, to ActiveDirectory/Exchange. This Exchange environment is in-house at the moment, but will only be so for a short period, before we're forced to migrate to the online solution the state has worked out with Microsoft. It was BPOS at one point, I'm not sure if it still is, or if it's going to whatever the latest name for it is. While the system is in-house, the shared mailboxes would do exactly what we want them to; provide a central mailbox, that multiple users would have access to. Unfortunately, with the online service, any mailbox that collects mail will incur a cost. I'm a little upset about it, but after thinking about it for a minute, it does make sense, as they have to store those mails somewhere, so storage costs are incurred. At least that's what I'm assuming, and not for the mailbox itself. So, we're going to end up creating Distribution Groups for this type of e-mail, and instead of having 1 central copy, there will be a copy for everyone. It's a Wonderful Life :) Joe Heaton ITB - Windows Server Support From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 7:38 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Shared mailboxes Not to my knowledge. There are a couple of minor attributes different like RecipientType and RecipientTypeDetails. From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com]<mailto:[mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com]> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 4:51 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Shared mailboxes In reading about shared mailboxes a few articles say just to create the mailbox using the EMC and assign the permissions to it. No mention of disabling the mailbox account. By creating using the EMS and the -shared flag then it automagically disables the account and also gives it a distinctive icon. Is there any other differences (besides Microsoft Licensing scrutiny)? From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]<mailto:[mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 3:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Shared mailboxes Perfect, thank you. Didn't realize what it was actually called, but I knew what I wanted :P Joe Heaton ITB - Windows Server Support From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:michael@smithconscom]<mailto:[mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 1:06 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Shared mailboxes To be "completely legal" you should make it a "shared mailbox" instead of a "user mailbox". In which case the account is automatically disabled. Shared mailboxes do not require a CAL. At least in the USA. And IANAL. From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]<mailto:[mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 3:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Shared mailboxes I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can't find anything that really addresses it in the Lyris server. Exchange 2010 If I setup a mailbox, called sa...@company.com<mailto:sa...@company.com>. I create a user called sales, tie the mailbox to it, then disable that account in ADUC. I then go into EMC, and add multiple users having Full Access to this mailbox. Question: Does this setup use a CAL? Or is it a "free" mailbox? 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