SBS 2000, Exchange won't allow me to change primary account

We've got an SBS 2k setup and have several email addresses (abc.org,
abc.com, abc.co.uk, etc.) for each client. SBS was set up using the
abc.org setup with the others as secondary addresses for each user.
All mail can be received on any email address so that side of things
is working fine.

However, we'd rather have the primary to be abc.com. Unfortunately, I
can no longer seem to be able to select a different 'Primary' account.
The option to change is there and the dialog boxes allow me to go
through the procedure and appears to have succeeded at the end of the
process but if I click back into the dialog box, I see that everything
is back the way it was.

This is driving me nuts. There are no error messages in the event
viewer. Everything appears to be running fine except this.
Please help,

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Marina
Tue Aug 10 05:45:27 CDT 2004

Hi Dale,

Have you tried setting the primary address in the Recipient Update Policy?

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Regards,

Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP

"Dale Walker" <dale@sorted.org> schreef in bericht
news:8t7hh0tfd9d25hhd5oetmd5d1vvfbvs7ub@4ax.com...
> We've got an SBS 2k setup and have several email addresses (abc.org,
> abc.com, abc.co.uk, etc.) for each client. SBS was set up using the
> abc.org setup with the others as secondary addresses for each user.
> All mail can be received on any email address so that side of things
> is working fine.
>
> However, we'd rather have the primary to be abc.com. Unfortunately, I
> can no longer seem to be able to select a different 'Primary' account.
> The option to change is there and the dialog boxes allow me to go
> through the procedure and appears to have succeeded at the end of the
> process but if I click back into the dialog box, I see that everything
> is back the way it was.
>
> This is driving me nuts. There are no error messages in the event
> viewer. Everything appears to be running fine except this.
> Please help,
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Dale Walker London Techno Events Saiko!
> dale@sorted.org london@sorted.org saiko@sorted.org
> London, UK london.sorted.org saiko.sorted.org

Kevin
Tue Aug 10 05:50:31 CDT 2004

When you go into AD User > Properties > Email Addresses tab, make sure both
abc.org and abc.com are listed. If not add, it. Then highlight the abc.com,
and select as Primary.

But, before closing this screen, at the bottom of that screen UNcheck the
'automatically update email...' option.

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Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"


"Dale Walker" <dale@sorted.org> wrote in message
news:8t7hh0tfd9d25hhd5oetmd5d1vvfbvs7ub@4ax.com...
> We've got an SBS 2k setup and have several email addresses (abc.org,
> abc.com, abc.co.uk, etc.) for each client. SBS was set up using the
> abc.org setup with the others as secondary addresses for each user.
> All mail can be received on any email address so that side of things
> is working fine.
>
> However, we'd rather have the primary to be abc.com. Unfortunately, I
> can no longer seem to be able to select a different 'Primary' account.
> The option to change is there and the dialog boxes allow me to go
> through the procedure and appears to have succeeded at the end of the
> process but if I click back into the dialog box, I see that everything
> is back the way it was.
>
> This is driving me nuts. There are no error messages in the event
> viewer. Everything appears to be running fine except this.
> Please help,
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Dale Walker London Techno Events Saiko!
> dale@sorted.org london@sorted.org saiko@sorted.org
> London, UK london.sorted.org saiko.sorted.org

Lanwench
Tue Aug 10 08:33:59 CDT 2004

Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] wrote:
> When you go into AD User > Properties > Email Addresses tab, make
> sure both abc.org and abc.com are listed. If not add, it. Then
> highlight the abc.com, and select as Primary.
>
> But, before closing this screen, at the bottom of that screen UNcheck
> the 'automatically update email...' option.

Better to do this in the recipient policy & let it handle it, IMO.
>
>
> "Dale Walker" <dale@sorted.org> wrote in message
> news:8t7hh0tfd9d25hhd5oetmd5d1vvfbvs7ub@4ax.com...
>> We've got an SBS 2k setup and have several email addresses (abc.org,
>> abc.com, abc.co.uk, etc.) for each client. SBS was set up using the
>> abc.org setup with the others as secondary addresses for each user.
>> All mail can be received on any email address so that side of things
>> is working fine.
>>
>> However, we'd rather have the primary to be abc.com. Unfortunately, I
>> can no longer seem to be able to select a different 'Primary'
>> account. The option to change is there and the dialog boxes allow me
>> to go through the procedure and appears to have succeeded at the end
>> of the process but if I click back into the dialog box, I see that
>> everything is back the way it was.
>>
>> This is driving me nuts. There are no error messages in the event
>> viewer. Everything appears to be running fine except this.
>> Please help,
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dale Walker London Techno Events Saiko!
>> dale@sorted.org london@sorted.org saiko@sorted.org
>> London, UK london.sorted.org saiko.sorted.org

Dale
Tue Aug 10 08:48:24 CDT 2004

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 06:50:31 -0400, "Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]"
<kweilbacMVP@gte.net> wrote:

>When you go into AD User > Properties > Email Addresses tab, make sure both
>abc.org and abc.com are listed.

Yep, already had a load of these.

>If not add, it. Then highlight the abc.com,
>and select as Primary.

As I was doing before.

>But, before closing this screen, at the bottom of that screen UNcheck the
>'automatically update email...' option.

Ah-ha!

Never even noticed that tick box was there. Is that a newer feature
not found on SBS 4.5?

Done the trick anyway. Cheers.

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Dale Walker London Techno Events Saiko!
dale@sorted.org london@sorted.org saiko@sorted.org
London, UK london.sorted.org saiko.sorted.org