Remove WindowsEmailAddress?

[Karl Mitschke]

Hello;

I am running Exchange 2007, SP1, and I am trying to clear the WindowsEmailAddress
after (or even before) disabling a mailbox.

Disabling it seems to remove the PrimarySMTPAddress, but not the WindowsEmailAddress.

I DON'T want to delete the AD account, all I want to do is remove its WindowsEmailAddress.

I tried set-mailbox -identity "identity" -WindowsEmailAddress $null" which
fails as $null is not a valid smtp address.

I suppose I could do a call to Active Directory, but I'd prefer not to.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Kar

[Shay Levi]

You can clear it with Quest's AD cmdlets:

Set-QADObject -Identity user -objectAttributes @{mail=""}



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Post by Karl Mitschke
Hello;
I am running Exchange 2007, SP1, and I am trying to clear the
WindowsEmailAddress after (or even before) disabling a mailbox.
Disabling it seems to remove the PrimarySMTPAddress, but not the WindowsEmailAddress.
I DON'T want to delete the AD account, all I want to do is remove its WindowsEmailAddress.
I tried set-mailbox -identity "identity" -WindowsEmailAddress $null"
which fails as $null is not a valid smtp address.
I suppose I could do a call to Active Directory, but I'd prefer not to.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Karl

[Karl Mitschke]

Hello Shay,

Post by Shay Levi
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http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

Post by Karl Mitschke
Hello;
I am running Exchange 2007, SP1, and I am trying to clear the
WindowsEmailAddress after (or even before) disabling a mailbox.
Disabling it seems to remove the PrimarySMTPAddress, but not the WindowsEmailAddress.
I DON'T want to delete the AD account, all I want to do is remove its
WindowsEmailAddress.
I tried set-mailbox -identity "identity" -WindowsEmailAddress $null"
which fails as $null is not a valid smtp address.
I suppose I could do a call to Active Directory, but I'd prefer not to.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Karl

Shay;

I should have mentioned that we won't be installing the Quest AD cmdlets
on our Exchange servers, where my scripts run.

Looks like I will just do it with good old fashioned code.

Thanks

Kar

[John Fullbright]

For a user object in ad, it's the mail attribute

in vbscript, something like

objUser.Put "mail", ""
objUser.setinfo

The "old fashioned way"

Post by Karl Mitschke
Hello;
I am running Exchange 2007, SP1, and I am trying to clear the
WindowsEmailAddress after (or even before) disabling a mailbox.
Disabling it seems to remove the PrimarySMTPAddress, but not the WindowsEmailAddress.
I DON'T want to delete the AD account, all I want to do is remove its WindowsEmailAddress.
I tried set-mailbox -identity "identity" -WindowsEmailAddress $null" which
fails as $null is not a valid smtp address.
I suppose I could do a call to Active Directory, but I'd prefer not to.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Karl

[Karl Mitschke]

Hello John,

Post by John Fullbright
For a user object in ad, it's the mail attribute
in vbscript, something like
objUser.Put "mail", ""
objUser.setinfo
The "old fashioned way"

Post by Karl Mitschke
Hello;
I am running Exchange 2007, SP1, and I am trying to clear the
WindowsEmailAddress after (or even before) disabling a mailbox.
Disabling it seems to remove the PrimarySMTPAddress, but not the WindowsEmailAddress.
I DON'T want to delete the AD account, all I want to do is remove its
WindowsEmailAddress.
I tried set-mailbox -identity "identity" -WindowsEmailAddress $null"
which fails as $null is not a valid smtp address.
I suppose I could do a call to Active Directory, but I'd prefer not to.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Karl

Thanks, John;

As Garth (Wayne's World) would say, "Get with the now" ;)

No, seriously, I was going to do this wia calls to AD, but since we upgraded
to SP1 the mail attribute changes and deletes as expected (unless I DID code
this in my sleep, and forgot about it)

Karl