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On a few of my recent projects I've had to create an automation of live@edu emails for students and staff. I thought this would be a great opportunity to show another alternative email method then Google Mail. This post should walk you through the steps in creating a "block" to create live @ edu email accounts.

UMRA Version: 10.4
OS Version: Server 2008 R2

Below is a quick screen shot of how you should construct your "blocks". When I use this term, its just a reference to everything with in your start and end of your block. Some projects can get very complicated, so I like to encapsulate all my functions into "blocks" this way you know where every aspect of the function is. Now, you can create a whole separate project, however there is no need to have 100's of projects, and sometimes if you change that other project, its hard to find out what other projects are calling it. So for now, lets keep it simple, and create a "block" with your encapsulated code like below.



Now lets go over some of actions used in this image above. Some of these actions are straight forward, so we will dig into the ones that you might have questions on. On another note, I would prefer you check if the user is in live@edu first before creating the account to deter errors, but for this example, we will assume this user is not in live@edu.
> Set Admin Password - The Create Live@Edu MailBox action requires an encrypted password, that is why we are doing a "Set the encrypted value of variable" action.

> Setup Exchange Session - Now this is the tricky part, here you need to setup the variables like below.


> Create Live@edu Mailbox - This action is also straight forward, here you pass the standard variables to your action.


So there you have it a quick and easy way to get your students, staff, etc. live@edu accounts. If you have any questions please feel free to email me.