OIM - Exchange connector creating multiple mail stores

You may be surprised to see that Exchange connector sometimes creates multiple mailboxes. I spent so much time to figure out why it is happening.



I would say it is Exchange 2003's one of ha ha.. behaviour

If you have a welcome/Initial email sent from the nonconditional task such as create mailbox task . This is a the culprit.

Never create a mailbox and send an email at the same time (if you are doing this through code) . You should instead write a scheduled task to send emails this task should check that if the Exchange resource is provisioned or not if it is provisioned then only send an email.


you have to do this because, Exchange server takes its own sweet time to create a mailbox. so be carefull when you see a wierd behaviour of Exchange server. when using an Excahnge connector with Oracle Identity Management.