Active Directory - Mailbox issue

Liquid_Entity · 22 Nov 2006 at 11:53

I am in need of some help !!

Setup a distribution group with several members and I need to assign it a particular email address so the mail can be sent correctly. The problem is the email address has already been used somewhere in AD before but not sure where. I have gone through the active members of the AD and cannot find any users with a secondary email of this particular email address. I have tried searching using "find" in all of the AD but still cannot find the culprit email address owner.

Is there any tools or any way of finding where this email address is ??

tonyyeb · 22 Nov 2006 at 13:29

It is unclear if you have tried the advanced find in AD so if not here it is:

Go to the find option > Click advanced > Click the field button > choose user > Click e-mail address > Change condition to Is(Exactly) > enter the e-mail address in the value box and click find now.

If this returns no users then it maybe a group with that e-mail address.

You may need the help of a vb script or advanced LDAP query. You might want to look into dsquery if you have 2003.

EDIT: Been playing a bit more and you could do:

Find > Exchange Recipients > And unselect everything other than Mail-Enabled Groups.

Then at least you will have all the groups with e-mail addresses.

Liquid_Entity · 22 Nov 2006 at 13:42

Thanks for the reply, yeah sorry, I have tried the Advanced find as well but no luck. Its not in a group mail list either.

Looks like I need to delve deeper

Liquid_Entity · 22 Nov 2006 at 14:35

any ideas how to use dsquery or what not ? I found a page from Microsoft on dsquery but looks rather technical :confused:

tonyyeb · 22 Nov 2006 at 15:22

Why not use the find option to export all your users to a csv, open in excel and then use the search function in excel to find the e-mail address?