Set-Mailbox requires a mailbox, which means that it requires a user object. That's far different than a contact.
TTBOMK, the actual implementation of forwarding hasn't changed (in terms of the attributes used), but Exchange 2010 does stamp objects with more attributes than Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 did, and if the attribute's versions aren't correct then Exchange 2010 complains. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Young, Darren [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 3:06 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 2010 Mail Forwarding What does Exchange do when you set the forwarding via Set-Mailbox? How is that forward actually implemented by 2010? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 2010 Mail Forwarding If it's truly a CONTACT then you should be using New-MailContact. You can also migrate an AD contact to an Exchange contact by using Enable-MailContact. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Young, Darren [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:34 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: 2010 Mail Forwarding For mail forwarding, in Exchange 2003 we built a web app that creates a contact object with a targetAddress of the external email then "attached" that to the altRecipient attribute for the user. This still works after we "upgrade" the contact object to work with 2010, however I would like to move this to a more native 2010 method. Is it really as simple as Set-Mailbox -Identity <> -ForwardingAddress <address>? If so, where does Exchange store this forwarded address? Darren Young Systems & Security Architect Computing Services University of Chicago Booth School of Business 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Voice 773.702.0331 | Fax 773.702.0233 --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
