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How to clear OWA 2007n autocomplete entries
I need tor remove a number of OWA autocomplete entries for all users on the network, without going to each user's mailbox and manually deleting the entry. Is there a way of automating this process?
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We used to have two networks here. Each with seperate domains and email.
We will be merging the smaller network into our domain.
There used to be an SMTP contact in our AD so that Exchange users could easily email members of our Accounts team (the sperate network).
Before creating en exchange mailbox for that user I deleted the SMTP contact for them and this is where the problem seems to be.
If you email them at their new address (domain1) it works fine as does emailing them to their old address (domain2) which we have set Outlook to deliver to their Exchange mailbox. The problem comes within our Exchange organisation using OWA.
A user who has previously emailed that user Fred Bloggs (FBloggs@domain2) will just type in Fred select the Fred Bloggs entry from their autocomplete list and hit send. The email goes off. It then bounces back a few seconds later with an undeliverable error.
I thought this was strange because as I said their old Pop3 email still works fine and is delivered to their Exchange address.
When investigatin the error it seems it is trying to deliver the message to FredBloggs@domain1. Somehow concatenating the name and appending our exchange domain onto it as it doesnt fine it as an SMTP contact within AD and doesn't seem to use the FQemail address associated with the autocomplete entry.
Kinda weird!.
The only way around this I can think of either re-creating the SMTP contact at their old address or creating an alias of FredBloggs@domain1 for each user we move over.
We will be merging the smaller network into our domain.
There used to be an SMTP contact in our AD so that Exchange users could easily email members of our Accounts team (the sperate network).
Before creating en exchange mailbox for that user I deleted the SMTP contact for them and this is where the problem seems to be.
If you email them at their new address (domain1) it works fine as does emailing them to their old address (domain2) which we have set Outlook to deliver to their Exchange mailbox. The problem comes within our Exchange organisation using OWA.
A user who has previously emailed that user Fred Bloggs (FBloggs@domain2) will just type in Fred select the Fred Bloggs entry from their autocomplete list and hit send. The email goes off. It then bounces back a few seconds later with an undeliverable error.
I thought this was strange because as I said their old Pop3 email still works fine and is delivered to their Exchange address.
When investigatin the error it seems it is trying to deliver the message to FredBloggs@domain1. Somehow concatenating the name and appending our exchange domain onto it as it doesnt fine it as an SMTP contact within AD and doesn't seem to use the FQemail address associated with the autocomplete entry.
Kinda weird!.
The only way around this I can think of either re-creating the SMTP contact at their old address or creating an alias of FredBloggs@domain1 for each user we move over.
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But say I know I have a rogue entry Fred Bloggs and want to remove that from all two thousand mailboxes OWA receipient lists. Is there a way to do this without reproducing your step one 2000 times?