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How to delete GAL entries?
Specifically stale GAL entries that no longer exist. We have users who when mailboxes restored to different servers, I think receive a different legacyDN attribute? and become stale in the GAL thus creating two entries on external organizations.
Any body have any idea as how to do this?
Any body have any idea as how to do this?
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Oh ok well it's like this. Are exchange server crashed and the higher ups created fake Dial Tone users but not the real way just sorta deleted and recreated the mailboxes.
So after a new exchange server was set up these new users were put in it and a RSG group created and restored from backups. Well we had to export/import email due to some flaw in that method (Exchange tasks did not work because of different GUID's)
So now some users but not all for some reason got NDR's when sending to people and seemed to have the same address? It was weird. It could have been different Legacy DN's even though the Alias was the same?. I created a simple bat file that deleted the Outlook.N2K file and it worked except for this external user who was solved by the way by closing and opening his outlook.
Weird? I don't know the guy said his computer was on for a long time maybe it needed to refresh.
So I guess the legacyDN just specifies the location of the recipient? It may had something to do with x.400 as well.
So after a new exchange server was set up these new users were put in it and a RSG group created and restored from backups. Well we had to export/import email due to some flaw in that method (Exchange tasks did not work because of different GUID's)
So now some users but not all for some reason got NDR's when sending to people and seemed to have the same address? It was weird. It could have been different Legacy DN's even though the Alias was the same?. I created a simple bat file that deleted the Outlook.N2K file and it worked except for this external user who was solved by the way by closing and opening his outlook.
Weird? I don't know the guy said his computer was on for a long time maybe it needed to refresh.
So I guess the legacyDN just specifies the location of the recipient? It may had something to do with x.400 as well.
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Am I incorrect in thinking that the OFFLINE address list CAN be stale?
For my cached mode users there is stale information in the Offline Address Book from when it ran this morning at 4:00 A.M. I try to run it manually and get an error (separate problem I believe), but wouldn't it be nice to be able to go into the stale Offline address book and delete the offending entry?
Otherwise when a cached user says "download the offline address book" they are just getting stale data again.
The specific problem i am having is I added an external mail contact user@subdomain.org.com and then deleted that contact. I modified a corresponding user's user object from user@org.com to user@subdomain.org.com and created its proxy address for exchange user@org.com. Exchange is supposed to look up user@org.com and resolve it to user@subdomain.org.com, but since both mail addresses exist in OAB, it tries to deliver it directly and fails.
For my cached mode users there is stale information in the Offline Address Book from when it ran this morning at 4:00 A.M. I try to run it manually and get an error (separate problem I believe), but wouldn't it be nice to be able to go into the stale Offline address book and delete the offending entry?
Otherwise when a cached user says "download the offline address book" they are just getting stale data again.
The specific problem i am having is I added an external mail contact user@subdomain.org.com and then deleted that contact. I modified a corresponding user's user object from user@org.com to user@subdomain.org.com and created its proxy address for exchange user@org.com. Exchange is supposed to look up user@org.com and resolve it to user@subdomain.org.com, but since both mail addresses exist in OAB, it tries to deliver it directly and fails.
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How would I delete that entry when you go to the "Global Address List" and see an account that does not exist?