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Email Contacts Issue

Can contacts primary or secondary SMTP Addresses be changed via Recipient Policies without affecting normal users with mailboxes?

My problem is that there is tons of contacts that are having issues with duplicate SMTP Addresses as our valid users with mailbox accounts.

This is causing 5.1.0 NDR Messages. We think a script was ran to do this because Exchange does not allow you to get away with creating a contact with the same email address as a mailbox account.

Any ideas let me know. Thanks a bunch everyone

fishadr

You would have to create a custom Recipient Policy to update the contacts only, but this would add to the existing addresses and not delete the existing duplicates. You will need to find the duplicates and change them.

fishadr

Check the following link for other ways of identifying the duplicates::

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318774

snyderkv

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Yes but please show me how to find dups

a qwery isnt helping me. maybe im doing it wrong

snyderkv

ASKER

ah gotcha

snyderkv

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Ah article was difficult to understand. I don't think it applies to my situation.

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snyderkv

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Sweet I will save the LDIFDE link for later. I may still need to use it.

What I did was make a query for contacts proxy addresses and one for users. I'm downloading a doc compare tool right now so it can highlight the difference.

Thanks a bunch

snyderkv

ASKER

Read the document.

Here is the problem with all these links. None of them show how to search ALL objects and spit out duplicates.

I'm sure I will need a script to do this.

Thanks guys

snyderkv

ASKER

Ah ok I did a query and queried for exchange recipients, contacts, proxyaddresses value SMTP:*@Domain.Com* and did the same for users

Then I exported the list and ran a compare doc utility from the net.

Thanks