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AD Email Distribution List problem

I created an email distribution group for one of our departments (ex: mydepartment). The problem i have is the email address that it was assigned was "mydepartment2@mydomain.com". So, my question is how can i find out where there might be an account or an alias that is using "mydepartment@mydomain.com"? I need to find that out so i can delete that and then re-create the email distribution list so it doesn't have a "2" in the email address.

Thanks!

DanielWillmott

Issue this in a command prompt to dump all the existing addresses into a file. Then look through the file to see if that address shows up:

dsquery * forestroot -scope subtree -filter "(&(mail=*)(proxyaddresses=smtp:*))" -attr proxyaddresses > smtps.txt

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jwcchelpdesk

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Dan,

it only gives me 100 results. How can i bypass that default limit to show everything?

jwcchelpdesk

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i was able to find where i can modify the limit amount. I ran the command again, and found my entry.

Now how can i go about finding it, and deleting it?

DanielWillmott

Yes - I was going to mention the '-limit ###' parameter.
To delete the object, you can go to Active Directory Users and Computers, Actions/Find and put the name of the user/contact/group in the Name field. That should find the object allowing you to right click on it and perform tasks like delete.

jwcchelpdesk

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It does not show up when i do a search. However when i did a custom Exchange Search in AD for mailboxes:

(&(&(&(& (mailnickname=*) (| (&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!(homeMDB=*))(!(msExchHomeServerName=*)))(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(|(homeMDB=*)(msExchHomeServerName=*)))(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=contact))(objectCategory=group)(objectCategory=publicFolder)(objectCategory=msExchDynamicDistributionList) )))))

it returned a list and my theory is that public folders have an email account tied to them and that is where my email address that i want to delete is from. I also checked some other public folders and they also have an email address that is tied to them which i found when i ran the commmand.

DanielWillmott

You could pull more info from the dsquery to figure out where it's coming from:

dsquery * forestroot -scope subtree -filter "(&(mail=*)(proxyaddresses=smtp:*))" -attr sAMAccountName distinguishedname objectCategory proxyaddresses >smtps.txt

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jwcchelpdesk

ASKER

Thanks for your help!!!

There's some other things i need to figure out, but at least i know where that email address is located