Exchange Server Pro » ADSIEdit.msc http://exchangeserverpro.com Microsoft Exchange Server News - Tips - Tutorials Tue, 22 May 2012 11:37:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Unable to Modify Default Global Address List http://exchangeserverpro.com/unable-to-modify-default-global-address-list http://exchangeserverpro.com/unable-to-modify-default-global-address-list#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:00:21 +0000 Paul Cunningham http://exchangeserverpro.com/?p=1767 If you try to modify the recipient filter of the default Global Address List in Exchange Server 2010 you will receive an error message:

You can’t peform this operation on default global address list “Default Global Address List”.

The recipient filter of the default Global Address List can be modified once during conversion from Exchange 2003 but not after that.  If you want to change the default Global Address List recipient filter after that you must either:

  • Create a new Global Address List with the desired recipient filter
  • Temporarily modify the Global Address List so that it isn’t the default

For the second option you can refer back to my earlier post on fixing  the issue where there is no default Global Address List in the organization.  This is determined by the msExchRecipientFilterFlags attribute of the object.

Simply use ADSIEdit.msc to modify the attribute from 3 to 0, apply the change to the Global Address List recipient filter, then return to ADSIEdit.msc and set the flag back to 3.  For more detailed instructions check out my previous post.

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This path comes from the value of the DataPath attribute on the Exchange Server object.

[PS] C:\Admin>Get-ExchangeServer | fl name, *path*

Name     : EXCH2010-TEST
DataPath : C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Mailbox

Unfortunately this attribute is not exposed to modification via the Set-ExchangeServer cmdlet. However like all attributes it is stored in Active Directory. In this case it is the msExchDataPath attribute on the Exchange Server object, viewable in ADSIEdit.msc.

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You can edit the attribute in ADSIEdit.msc and it will take effect immediately. The next time you run the New Mailbox Database wizard it will pre-populate the paths with the new value plus the name of the new database.

[PS] C:\Admin>Get-ExchangeServer | fl name, *path*

Name     : EXCH2010-TEST
DataPath : C:\ExchData

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