What the hell is going on with my exchange server!!! My Global Address List is showing two entries for the group Support. When I open the items to get the details for each entry it shows one has an email address of support@COMPANYNAME.com and the other has support2@COMPANYNAME.com. This is causing issues for my users when they try and send an email to Support, support2@COMPANYNAME.com shouldn't exist.
They both have the icon of being a public folder. Armed with this knowledge, I took the time to comb through my Public Folder structure (well over 500 mail enabled folders) and we couldn't find the culprit. Failing the manual process (don't ask me why I tried the hard way first, but I did) I turned to PowerShell. Using PowerGui, in conjunction with the Exchange Management shell, I browsed the Mail Enabled Public Folders using the command
get-mailPublicFolder |Sort-Object -Property 'Alias'
Using this command, I found the two entries. I see one located at
corp.COMP.com/Microsoft Exchange System Objects/Support THIS IS THE GOOD ONE
and the other one is located at
corp.COMP.com/Microsoft Exchange System Objects/Support 76405063 THE BAD ONE.
Armed with this info, I turned to PowerShell and ran the following command:
Get-MailPublicFolder | where { $_.Name -eq 'Support 76405063'} | Remove-PublicFolder -Confirm
running that, i got this wonderful message:
# WARNING: There is no existing PublicFolder that matches the following Identity: '/O=COMPANY/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SUPPORT98FAB85E4D0DF6C75D9FF78950567A5F351BA6'. Please make sure that you specified the correct PublicFolder Identity and that you have the necessary permissions to view PublicFolder.
#
WTF!!!!
So i thought, OK, lets try and hide the folder from the GAL, so i ran:
Get-MailPublicFolder | where { $_.Name -eq 'Support 76405063'} | Set-MailPublicFolder -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true
SAME PROBLEM.
Does anyone have any thoughts to what could be causing this?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Was this a fresh Exchange 2007 install, or was it an upgrade of some sort? From the numbers at the end it almost seems like it was a folder/Email address that got created and name appended because it already existed.
Upgrade from 2003. I am seeing other remnants from the 2003 organization, and for the life of me i can't get rid of this. I used ADSIedit, and that doesn't help. Any help would be appreciated.
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