Even if it updated itself it would still be stamped in the
contents of every message that still exists somewhere within the ORG, either in
calendars or in mailboxes. That is the address Exchange uses when you try to
update a meeting or respond to a message. You need something constant or else
you would lose those connections when say an email address or name
changed.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor W.
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:11 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [Exchange] Full Mailbox Directory Name holds wrong Administrative Group name
Thank you both very much for the replies and for the clear
explanations.
I think I will leave the legacyExchangeDN alone then.
I was thinking about changing it because part of it refers to an
object (Administrative Group) that no longer exists.
I am still a bit puzzled why it not updates itself when the
Administrative Group a user sits in, changes.
I will definately read up on the other conversations about
the legacyExchangeDN, sound interesting.
For the time being I will leave it to what it is now.
;-)
Thanks again.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: dinsdag 23 mei 2006 6:04
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [Exchange] Full Mailbox Directory Name holds wrong Administrative Group name
Yep I agree with Steven here.
If you really feel you need to change this, stop feeling
that way. ;o) It can impact mail delivery when someone tries to respond to a
message as well as calendar entry ownership, etc.
If you ABSOLUTELY must change the legacyExchangeDN, then
search the archives as there are some conversations on this. Basically you will
need to move the former legacyExchangeDN into proxyAddresses as an x500 address.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Presley, Steven
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 6:04 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [Exchange] Full Mailbox Directory Name holds wrong Administrative Group name
Victor,
At first I was not sure what you were talking about.
I've never used this column before (it's not displayed as one of the defaults
and I'm used to looking at mailbox enabled accounts via cmdline and now
PowerShell), but after looking at ESM what you are really talking about
(that most of us may be more familiar with) is the mailbox's legacyExchangeDN
attribute (which is called "Full Mailbox Directory Name" in ESM). This
attribute does not change when you move mailboxes from one server or
administrative group to another, in fact changing this attribute's
value will lead to messages that were send out by the moved mailbox not
being replyable.
So in
a nutshell, there is absolutely nothing wrong with what you are seeing. It
is expected and by design behavior. The legacyExchangeDN is used by
Outlook clients (under the hood) to address and submit mail through MAPI.
When an Outlook user sends out an email to other internal mailboxes
the from address, under the hood, is actually the legacyExchangeDN address (if
viewed with a tool like MFCMapi it's the PR_SENDER_EMAIL_ADDRESS). So if
you were to change this value then any messages sent out before the change would
become unreplyable (ok, not 100% true, because you could add an X500 address to
the user's mailbox-enabled account that matches the old legacyExchangeDN and
then the messages would get properly delivered).
Anyways, don't worry about it. There is nothing
wrong and I would highly recommend leaving the "full mailbox directory name"
alone. It's not that you can't change it, but you'd have to put it's old
value in as an additional proxy address (of the X500 type) in order for mail to
continue to be delivered properly. Don't really know what you'd gain from
that in the end. Hope this helps explain it a bit. There is a lot
more to it then that naturally, but I think the above summarizes some of the key
points about why you would not want to change it.
Best
regards,
Steven
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor W.
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 12:47 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [Exchange] Full Mailbox Directory Name holds wrong Administrative Group nameStill hoping for somebody to think with me on this matter :-(75% of the mailboxes that were moved have a Full Mailbox Directory Name which has the Administrative Group in it from wich they were moved from, instead of the one they are in now.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor W.
Sent: donderdag 18 mei 2006 22:20
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [Exchange] Full Mailbox Directory Name holds wrong Administrative Group namePerhaps I need to clarify this a little. What I mean is that a mailbox that has been moved to another Administrative Group, still has the Administrative Group in it's Full Mailbox Directory Name frow which it was moved.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor W.
Sent: dinsdag 16 mei 2006 22:32
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] [Exchange] Full Mailbox Directory Name holds wrong Administrative Group nameWe are in the middle of a migration from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003. We have 2 Administrative Groups in ESM. one of them is named: First Administrative Group (this name was left default at the time of the installation of the first server). The other has been given a new name. The First Administrative Group holds the Exchange 2000 servers, the other holds the Exchange 2003 servers.In the end only one Administrative Group will exist, the new one.Recently I moved a couple of hundred of mailboxes to a different server in a different Administrative Group.When looking at those mailboxes from withing ESM (by clicking the mailboxes node under the servers node), I can see that a most of those mailboxes still have the name of the Administrative Group they were in, in their Full Mailbox Directory Name (this is a column that can be added in ESM).The mailboxes were on a server which was in the First Administrative Group and have been moved to another server which sits in another Administrative Group.I am asking this because when after all the mailboxes have been moved (a few are still on that old server), I am planning to delete the First Administrative Group in time.My question is why does the Full Mailbox Directory Name still have the First Administrative Group in it, even if the mailbox is no longer in the First Administrative Group?Do I need to fix this before I will delete the First Administrative Group?Thanks in advance for the help.
