FOR THE GROUP? Then it isn't an Exchange object. Not possible.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 7:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Exchange] A very strange problem with a DL - Exchange 2010 By edit, do you mean add the '\' character in front of the '#' character? Yes, I can do that. But, what is the IEDN? I'm not seeing anything that looks like that in the attribute list for ADSIEdit. Oh, wait - do you mean the LegacyExchangeDN? That's empty. Kurt On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you manually edit the bad field in adsiedit? > > If so, go for it. > > If not, blow it away and start from scratch. I recommend you save the lEDN > and overwrite that on the new group before you start adding members to it. > That will allow for replies to continue working. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 6:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Exchange] A very strange problem with a DL - Exchange > 2010 > > Hmmmm.... > > After a bunch of failures with dsget, I finally, I tried this: > dsquery group -name re* > and got a list, including > "CN=ReSharperC#Users,OU=ExchangeDLs,OU=US,DC=example,DC=com" > > So I then did: > > C:\Batchfiles> dsget group > "CN=ReSharperC#Users,OU=ExchangeDLs,OU=US,DC=example,DC=com" > dn desc > CN=ReSharperC#Users,OU=ExchangeDLs,OU=US,DC=example,DC=com > dsget succeeded > > This looks like what I see in ADUC (and incidentally in ADSIEdit) > > Does this make sense? Are there next steps for me in trying to recover this > in Exchange? > > BTW, just for grins, I've used get-distributiongroup with -like filters for > name, displayname and alias, with negative results. > > Kurt > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: >> The distinguishedName is probably the right answer. Easy to test on a DC: >> >> dsget group >> "CN=ReSharperC\#Users,OU=ExchangeDLs,OU=US,DC=example,DC=com" >> >> Should give you a couple of lines of data about the group. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 9:03 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Exchange] A very strange problem with a DL - Exchange >> 2010 >> >> Michael, >> >> Sorry again for the delayed response - this floated down on my list >> of priorities until a couple of other things got finished. >> >> I probably used ADUC to change the name. >> >> I'm having problems with renaming back to what it was though - either >> I've misremembered the old name, or the effort to rename it isn't >> restoring it back to the GAL, for whatever reason, so it's not >> showing in the EMC. >> >> I would guess that I have to restore the original name exactly - am I >> correct? >> >> Regardless, I just performed the following in Powershell: >> get-adgroup -filter {name -like "*sharp*"} -properties * >> >> and I get back the following attributes that mention the name: >> >> CanonicalName : >> example.com/US/ExchangeDLs/ReSharperC#Users >> CN : ReSharperC#Users >> DistinguishedName : >> CN=ReSharperC\#Users,OU=ExchangeDLs,OU=US,DC=example,DC=com >> Name : ReSharperC#Users >> SamAccountName : ReSharperC#Users >> >> If this is too much of a bother to pursue, or too risky to fuss with, >> I'm OK with noting the members of the group, trashing it and >> recreating it - I don't think this list gets much traffic. >> >> Kurt >> >> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> '#' is a special character in LDAP and in PowerShell. So it has be >>> escaped. (And in C and C++ for that matter. I don't think it is in >>> C#, somewhat ironically.) >>> >>> What tool did you use to change the name? >>> >>> Any object has a bunch of name-related attributes associated with it. >>> 'name', 'displayName', 'simpleDisplayName', 'CN=another-name', etc. If it's >>> an Exchange object and you changed it with ADUC I’m not surprised it >>> 'disappeared'. Change it back with ADUC and then rename it with EMS or EMC. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >>> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 5:17 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [Exchange] A very strange problem with a DL - Exchange 2010 >>> >>> Someone recently created a DL with a '#' in the name and alias (it's for >>> our C# programmers). It displayed fine, but when using PS to manipulate the >>> group, it showed up with '\#' - which was interesting. >>> >>> I wasn't happy with the name used (it didn't match our naming >>> standard) so I changed the name to use 'CSharp' instead, as well as to >>> match our naming standard. >>> >>> Now I can't find the group in Exchange - at all. Not in the GAL via >>> Outlook, not in the EMC, and not with get-distributiongroup, even more than >>> 24 hours later. I haven't rebooted the box yet - I'll probably do that >>> tomorrow morning. >>> >>> I can see the group with get-adgroup, but that doesn't expose many of the >>> properties, including 'Alias', which I believe still has '#' in the name, >>> and which I suspect is causing the problem, though I don't know for sure. >>> >>> I could just delete the group through AD and recreate it, but that seems >>> like a less than optimal approach. >>> >>> It's quite baffling, and I'd love a clue as to how I can proceed. >>> >>> Kurt >>> >>> >> >> > >
