userPurpose resource type

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The purpose of the mailbox. Used to differentiate a mailbox for a single user from a shared mailbox and equipment mailbox in Exchange Online.

Properties

Property	Type	Description
value	mailboxRecipientType	Represents the user's recipient or mailbox type in Exchange Online. Possible values are: unknown, user, linked, shared, room, equipment, and others. See the next section for more information.

mailboxRecipientType values

Member	Description
unknown	No information found about the mailbox.
user	A user account with a mailbox in the local forest.
linked	A mailbox linked to a user account in another forest.
shared	A mailbox shared by two or more user accounts.
room	A mailbox representing a conference room.
equipment	A mailbox representing a piece of equipment.
others	Mailbox found but user purpose is different from the ones specified above.

JSON representation

Here is a JSON representation of the resource.

{
    "value": "string"
}