You could mark those non-standard mailboxes with some property and exclude them from the recipient policy.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hilda De Nigris Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 4:29 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Global SMTP Address Issue - Exchange 5.5 / 2003 Has this ever happened to anyone before? We've been running a mixed mode environment with Exchange 5.5 & Exchange 2003 for the past several months with minimal issues. For unknown reasons, something in our environment recently activated which caused the global altering of all "Non-Standard" primary SMTP addresses. This global change forced about %25 of our mailbox enabled users to take on the default SMTP address policy of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as their primary address. Normally this is not a problem, as this is our standard policy. Unfortunately, this also changed all "Non-Standard" user mailboxes with "Middle Initials", Custom SMTP Address Names, Special Service Account Mailboxes & Mailbox Accounts Names with similar spelling. The result of this change adversely affected certain Internet Email functionality as well as Blackberry Wireless services. We have not identified any changes in our environment that would account for this Global alteration. As a result, we've had to remove the checkmark from the "Automatically Update E-mail Addresses Based On Recipient Policy" option under all custom "Mailbox Enabled" user accounts in Active Directory in order to retain their proper primary SMTP address. (Note: This checkmark option is located under the "Email Addresses" tab at the bottom of an individual user's properties in Active Directory.) We now have a condition by where if this checkmark is not removed, all custom SMTP names will revert back to the "Standard SMTP Address" policy of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" within 15 mins. Please let me know if anyone has ever seen this before in their environment and can it be stopped? Thanks in advance! _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
