That's exactly the case, except its not in the child domain (child1.domain.com) but it exists everywhere else, (domain.com, child2.domain.com, child3.domain.com)
When I try the admod command, it tries to contact the child domain (child1.domain.com) that is the owner of the account, but does not find it there. Some how, it seems that the deletion did not replication to all other GC's in the forest. -Devon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:26 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove orphaned account That means your default GC has the object in its database but your default DC for that domain doesn't see it. You can tell which DCs are involved by doing this adfind -gc -b -s base dnshostname adfind -h domain.com -b -s base dnshostname If the object is in your default domain you can shorten the second command to adfind -b -s base dnshostname joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, Devon Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:13 PM To: joe; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove orphaned account When I try to remove the object, I get this: C:\> Adfind -gc -b -f "proxyaddresses=smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -dsq | admod -del AdMod V01.00.00cpp Joe Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) July 2004 DN Count: 1 Using server: server.domain.com Deleting specified objects... DN: cn=doe\, john,cn=users,dc=domain,dc=com...: [server.domain .com] Error 0x20 (32) - No Such Object ERROR: Too many errors encountered, terminating... The command did not complete successfully -----Original Message----- From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:55 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: Harding, Devon Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove orphaned account <Resend and Update, list blocked because I responded from wrong account> Almost, -del or -rm would delete the entire user object... But you need to use -dsq on adfind to output the quoted DN. adfind -gc -b -f "proxyaddresses=smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -dsq | admod -del Also if you want to just remove that address you could do adfind -gc -b -f "proxyaddresses=smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -dsq | admod "proxyaddresses:-:smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Note that if that address is the primary SMTP Exchange may get grumpy if you don't set another address as primary. [UPDATE} Looking at Hunters Response, he makes sense. Instead of deleting the object or the attribute, consider clearing the Exchange attributes. adfind -gc -b -f "proxyaddresses=smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -dsq | exchmbx -clear joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, Devon Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:35 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: joe Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove orphaned account Ok, now I'm getting somewhere. Correct me if I'm wrong. Would this be the correct command to find and remove that account that the SMTP address is associated with? Adfind -gc -b -f "proxyaddresses=smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | admod -del -Devon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, Devon Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:26 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove orphaned account Ok, I found the address using adfind -gc -b -f "proxyaddresses=smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]", but now how do I remove it from AD? -Devon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, Devon Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:21 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove orphaned account About 10mins. When I do a normal AD search for that SMTP address, it does not return any results. That adfind command didn't find any results either. -Devon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:12 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove orphaned account How quickly did you try to reuse that SMTP address? I've seen that when I delete a mailbox or contact and immediately try to apply the address to another object. Might be worth verifying that the address is gone: Adfind -gc -b dc=domain,dc=com -s subtree -f "proxyaddresses=*youraddress*" name -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, Devon Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:52 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Remove orphaned account I have a user account that I deleted in AD. When I try to add another user with that same SMTP address, it stated that the address already exists. When I do a search for that address in AD, I get no results. How can I remove this SMTP address from AD? 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