Removing Outlook Auto-completes across an organisation

drumdogg · 1 Apr 2015 at 12:58

Hi Guys,

I have a migration of some user to new servers etc and having an issue where users are sending emails with the auto-complete address which is sending the emails locally to where the old mailbox was and not to the new mailbox on new servers.

I want to keep the mailboxes on the old exchange for a period of time until i know everything has migrated successfully.

I see you can use a program N2KEdit to remove entries from outlook auto complete but would need to do this for every user. Is this the right way to go or is there another way i can stop mail being delivered locally to the old mailbox??

Thanks in Advance

bledd · 1 Apr 2015 at 13:44

You could just delete the n2k file from every user account

drumdogg · 1 Apr 2015 at 13:55

You could just delete the n2k file from every user account

Yea had though of this but some user wont like that as they rely on it to remember external email address. Ideally i would like to remove all auto complete address with a certain domain.

But deleting the file may be the best and quickest option.

Thanks

PiKe · 1 Apr 2015 at 14:03

Tell your users to use their address book as intended and stop being lazy!

drumdogg · 1 Apr 2015 at 14:10

Tell your users to use their address book as intended and stop being lazy!

Is there a way of deleting these remotely with a script? Dont fancy manually deleting 500 of these.

bledd · 1 Apr 2015 at 18:43

del "%userprofile%\local settings\app data\outlook\profile.n2k"

or whatever the path is.

might be better to use ren to rename it to .old instead.

andshrew · 1 Apr 2015 at 19:53

If you're on at least Outlook 2010 their nickname cache will be stored in a hidden item within their profile on the server not in a nk2 file on the local system.

Shouldn't this all just be taken care of as part of the migration. Can Exchange not be configured to be able direct these emails to their new address on the new server.

You will be least popular person if you have to resort to nuking their cache.