Id say that your
default recipient policy wasnt changed. Out of the box it uses the alias for its
name generation.
Assuming your email
addresses got overwritten and they arent in there as secondary smtp addresses I
would try the following
First off make sure
that your users first name and last name are in the First Name and Last Name
fields in Active Directory Users and Computers under the General
tab.
Open up your copy of
Exchange System Manager.
In the left hand
window expand out your Organization, Recipients, then Recipient
Policies.
In the right hand
window double click on 'Default Policy'
Click on the tab
called 'E-Mail Addresses (Policy)'. You should see a line called
"smtp [EMAIL PROTECTED]" thats in bold and checked.
Do one of the
following
Edit the [EMAIL PROTECTED] line to
read [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OR
New, SMTP address, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
ok, then highlight the new smtp line and hit the 'Set as Primary'
button.
Then save the
policy. Right click on it and choose apply this policy
now.
Or if you are
feeling REALLY REALLY REALLY brave, take a look at how to do this with Ldifde
(scripting with LDAP)
Another
possiblity if you dont have a record of what they were originally would be to
take your latest Exchange 5.5 backup pre Exchange 2000 and restore it to another
server and do a directory export. With a little spreadsheet magic you can take
that export and make it an import file for your production exchange 5.5 server
and just import the Exchange account name, alias and smtp address. Then kick off
the recipient update service in ADC.
Heres a
technet article for that, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b177635
Lots of
luck!
Clyde
Burns
-----Original Message-----
From: Byrne, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Primary SMTP addresses Exchange 5.5/2000/ ADHi, I'm posting in here, in case there is something with ADSI/LDAP I can use to fix this problem..?We have always had two SMTP addresses for each user's mailbox.For some reason, my ADC has changed all my users Primary SMTP (reply to) address to alais@domain.com instead of firstname.lastname@domain.comChanging these all back could take weeks, does anyone know how to fix this with a script?Does anyone know how this might have happened?Thanks , SB