Exchange 2010 TargetAddress

Django x2 · 3 Jun 2011 at 17:17

Just been at a customer site where they are implementing the targetaddress attribute on Exchange 2010

SMTP:[email protected]

I've not seen this done before although I can understand the reasons for implementing it. The Exchange consultant onsite said he thought it was assigned natively by Exchange when a user was created.

I've just looked through on my test lab and the targetaddress attribute is not set for any of my EX2010 users. If I set it (through ADSIedit for example), the users can no longer send/receive email.

Can someone shed some light on what it exactly does and why it doesn't work in my lab?

madman045 · 3 Jun 2011 at 17:25

From a quick search online, the TargetAddress attribute is used either in migrations, either to another exchange system or BPOS and the end system takes the email address as the target address and sets it as the users primary, another example is creating a valid mail contact for your domain and then giving it a secondary email address for another valid domain and it will send the email to the other domain without the need to create a account and set up a forward

Django x2 · 3 Jun 2011 at 17:37

Ah yes, this is a BPOS migration. I guess therefore it has no real place in a normal already functioning Exchange estate

s0ck · 6 Jun 2011 at 14:37

madman045 said:
takes the email address as the target address and sets it as the users primary

Multi-domain setups were my first thought...