Thanks. I see those as well, but I just never expected for inter...@whatever to be an unusable (reserved) SMTP address in an Exchange organization. No big deal at the end of the day. I'll just tell the folks that requested the distribution group that prompted all this to pick another address.
Thanks to everyone that helped for the suggestions and pointers. Does anyone have any idea why these system folders are hanging on to the old, unused domain names in the SMTP addresses? Again, not a big deal. I'm just curious at this point. RS -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 'Missing' public folder You'll find a few of those in the PF hierarchy. For example, there is also one named "Microsoft" and one named "schema". -----Original Message----- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 'Missing' public folder Thanks Kurt. Using PFDAVAdmin here's what I found. The folder with the email address inter...@... Is a named "internal" and is a subfolder of a System Folder named StoreEvents{GUID}. Enumerating the DS:proxyAddresses values of this subfolder with the PFDAVAdmin tool shows the SMTP addresses and one of the ones attached is colliding with the one I wish(ed) to use. Curiously, AdFind shows that it's a public folder and lists the associated SMTP addresses, but I don't see any obvious relation to the StoreEvents{GUID} from AdFind's output. I suppose at this point I should just assume that it's a protected system folder and move on. One other thing that seems odd to me is that it has retained SMTP addresses for domains that we don't own anymore and have been removed from the Default E-Mail Addresses policy. So for example, even though we no longer own xyz.com, and removed it from the E-Mail Addresses policy some time ago, this folder still maintains an address for inter...@xyz.com. Richard -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 11:37 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: 'Missing' public folder PFDAV? On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 18:50, Richard Stovall <richard.stov...@researchdata.com> wrote: > It does have the same name as the SMTP address (inter...@...) It doesn't > show in System Manager at all. Very odd. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:57 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: 'Missing' public folder > > The folder most likely has the same name as its SMTP address. > > Assuming you have only one Administrative Group, if you open up the > System Manager for Exchange, navigate to Administrative Groups/[admin > group]/Folders/Public Folders, then you'll see the list of public > folders. At that point, you can search for the PF by name in the right > pane. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 14:47, Richard Stovall > <richard.stov...@researchdata.com> wrote: >> I went to create a distribution group (Exchange 2003 SP2, Server 2003 >> AD - >> 2003 functional level) and could not give it the email address I >> wanted because the address already exists in the organization, e.g >> x...@123.com. A search through AD indicates that there is a mail >> enabled public folder that holds that email address. However, I can >> only find that public folder with an AD search. I cannot see it in >> Exchange System Manager. Am I missing something? The public folder >> in question has a very old create date. Is it possible that I can’t >> see it in System Manager b/c I don’t have rights to it? (The account >> I’m using is an Exchange Full Administrator and a Domain >> Admin.) It was almost certainly created by a former admin who has >> been gone for years. >> >> >> >> Stumped and grateful for pointers, >> >> >> >> RS > > >
