If you have applications which need to send emails through the Exchange 2007 Receive Connecter, even if you allow the anonymous user on the Permission Groups of the connecter, the anonymous user is not allowed to relay to Email Adresses outside the corporation.

Therefore you get following error:

550 5.7.1 Unable to relay

5.7.1: The sender is not authorized to send e-mail messages to this e-mail address. Possible causes: 1)The session is not authenticated and does not have the ‘ms-Exch-SMTP-Submit’ permission. 2)The session is authenticated but does not have the ‘ms-Exch-SMTP-Submit’ permission. 3)The ‘MAIL FROM’ command specified an address at an authoritative domain and the session does not have the ‘ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Authoritative-Domain-Sender’ permission. 4)The authenticated user does not have permission to submit on behalf of the sender address specified in the header of the message and the session does not have the ‘ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Sender’ permission. 5)The recipient domain does not match any of the accepted domains and the session does not have the ‘ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient’ permission. 6)The recipient domain is rejecting all mail from this server using a block list.

Use following cmdlet to enable relaying for anonymous user:

Get-ReceiveConnector “Default ex1″ | Add-ADPermission -User “NT Authority\Anonymous logon” -ExtendedRights “ms-Exch-SMTP-accept-Any-Recipient”

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If you have used ADMT and PowerShell for a cross domain migration, some mailboxes are listed as linked mailbox.

I have searched a whole fuc..ing night to figure out what caused this linked mailbox behavior!

Here the Solutions:

Make sure, that on the source server, no unmatched SID on the advanced Exchange Security Permission and Owner TAB are listed!

On SOURCE Server

- Show Advanced Features in ADUC

Open the user with the mailbox migrated as linked mailbox => Click on Exchange – Advanced => Click on Mailbox rights, Make sure no unmatched SID is listed

Also open Advanced => Owner and Make sure the Owner still exists and has also been migrated to the targed Host!

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If you migrated a mailbox from another Exchange System (2000/2003) mailboxes are sometimes migrated as legacy mailbox.

To fix this issue, user following cmdlet in PowerShell:

Set-Mailbox -Identity mailboxname -ApplyMandatoryProperties

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It is not possible to migrate contact objects with ADMT (3.1)

To export contacts from active directory, you can simply use followin command

ldifde -f contacts.ldf -d “ou=Contacts,dc=testlab,dc=corp” -r (“objectClass=contact”) -l objectClass,sn,givenName,displayName,proxyaddresses,importedFrom,targetAddress,mailNickname,name,mail

This would export all contacts from the OU Contacts. If you want to export all contact objects, simply use following command:

ldifde -f contacts.ldf -d “dc=testlab,dc=corp” -r (“objectClass=contact”) -l objectClass,sn,givenName,displayName,proxyaddresses,importedFrom,targetAddress,mailNickname,name,mail

You can import the contacts.ldf with following command:

ldifde -i -f contacts.ldf

This will only work, if you import the contacts to the same AD Structure.

If you want to import the contacts on another AD Domain, you have to modify the contacts.ldf with an Editor and replace the LDAP Path to your needs. E.g:

dn: CN=Contact1,OU=MigrateContacts,DC=testlab2,DC=corp
changetype: add
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: contact
givenName: Contact1

displayName: Contact1

proxyAddresses: SMTP:

digital@testlab.ch

Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann.

proxyAddresses: smtp:

contact1@testlab.de

Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann.

proxyAddresses: smtp:

contact1@testlab.at

Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann.

proxyAddresses:
X400:c=CH;a= ;p=Testlab;o=Testlab;s=Contact1?CH;ou1=TestOU;
targetAddress: SMTP:

digital@testlab.ch

Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann.

mailNickname: ContactH
name: Contact_CH
mail:

digital@testlab.ch

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Before you can remove the disconnected mailbox from Exchange 2007, you need to figure out the MailboxGuid and also the coresponding database:

Get-MailboxStatistics | where-object { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | Select DisplayName,MailboxGuid

Get-Mailbox -Identity mailboxname | FL

To remove a disconnected mailbox from Exchange 2007 you can use following cmdlet:

Remove-Mailbox -StoreMailboxIdentity d6dd0587-6a62-446a-a1ef-0b785dac1090 -Database sg1mdb1

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