Exchange 2003, Public Folder Store (Server Name) problem solved!
Thanks to Alex Seigler and Dom for pointing me in the right direction on this one. Last night after Dom and I tried figuring out the inner workings of using ldifde and dsquery I ended up stumbling along and found KB842273. Which I then figured would work since Alex copied over some output which I’ve not got a clue how he pulled out still, dsquery maybe? At any rate my public folder store ended up getting the alias corey@ when I tried fooling with the default recipient policy. It looks like when I did that Exchange added a corey*@ to every place that had or could have an address. Anyway I just followed the blue bits and got things sorted.
- Start the Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI) Edit tool. To do this, click Start, click Run, type adsiedit.msc in the Open box, and then click OK.
Note ADSI Edit is included with the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Support Tools and with the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Support Tools. To install the Windows 2000 Support Tools, double-click Setup.exe in the Support\Tools folder on the Windows 2000 CD. To install the Windows Server 2003 Support Tools, double-click Suptools.msi in the Support\Tools folder on the Windows Server 2003 CD. - Connect to a domain controller if you are not already connected.
- Note In this step, “contoso.com” is a placeholder for your domain name, and the other italic words are also placeholders.
Expand Configuration Container [computername.contoso.com], expand CN=Configuration,DC=contoso,DC=com, expand CN=Services, expand CN=Microsoft Exchange, expand CN=OrganizationName, expand CN=Administrative Groups, expand CN=AdministrativeGroupName, expand CN=Servers, expand CN=ExchangeServerName, expand CN=InformationStore, and then click CN=First Storage Group. - In the right pane, right-click CN=Public Folder Store (EXCHANGESERVERNAME), and then click Properties.
- In the Select which properties to view list, click Both.
- In the Select a property to view list, click proxyAddresses.
- In the Value(s) box, determine whether an e-mail address is assigned. Typically, the public folder store is stamped with a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) address that appears similar to the following:
SMTP:ExchangeServerName-IS@contoso.com (for me it had something similar to this plus SMTP:corey@auroravisions.com) - In the Select a property to view list, click mail.
- In the Value(s) box, verify the SMTP address is the same as the SMTP address that is displayed in step 7.
Anyway, removing the somewhat hidden proxy address for the public folder store fixed things quite well. In Outlook all the mail that already came in as Public Folder Store (Server Name) still remains that way, but I think if I delete the .OST and let Outlook sync all over again from scratch that that might fix things in Outlook, not too sure about that one.
Oh and I’m still trying to figure out an easy way of migrating from a IIS NNTP file system store to an Exchange NNTP public folder store. I’m afraid if this doesn’t actually get sorted soon I may switch back. Oh well.
UPDATE: Deleting the .OST and letting Outlook recreate it didn’t change the previous emails which showed the To as Public Folder Store (Server Name). So I guess I’ll just have to ignore those.
