Hi All, I had removed two PF from Active Directory, for some reason i used ADRestore.net tool to restore them. After that i had then i deleted it again. After a month till now those two PF's are still visible in GAL. I want to remove it manually. Please help. Regds, Ganesh

Does it show in the GAL in owa or just the client? If just client could be bad cache\OAB issue. If it's showing in OWA then object still exists in AD. It's possible you could have a replication issue and still exists on one DC that Exchange is looking at.James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

It appears both in Outlook GAL & in OWA. Its not OAB issue. I feel this is not replication issue as we have 11 additional domain controllers and all of them are connected as well.Regards, Ganesh

If you do a search for that email address in AD nothing comes up? start, run, ldp connect, bind browse, search base dn: DC=domain,DC=com filter: proxyaddresses=smtp:DL@company.com scope: subtree James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

I could see those two deleted objects when i ran ldp tool. Following are the output. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Searching... ldap_search_s(ld, "DC=abc,DC=com", 2, "proxyaddresses=smtp:oraclehcm@abc.com", attrList, 0, &msg) Result <0>: (null) Matched DNs: Getting 1 entries: >> Dn: CN=Oracle HCM,CN=Microsoft Exchange System Objects,DC=abc,DC=com 2> objectClass: top; publicFolder; 1> cn: Oracle HCM; 1> distinguishedName: CN=Oracle HCM,CN=Microsoft Exchange System Objects,DC=abc,DC=com; 1> name: Oracle HCM; 1> canonicalName: abc.com/Microsoft Exchange System Objects/Oracle HCM; ----------- ***Searching... ldap_search_s(ld, "DC=abc,DC=com", 2, "proxyaddresses=smtp:oraclerecruiting@abc.com", attrList, 0, &msg) Result <0>: (null) Matched DNs: Getting 1 entries: >> Dn: CN=Oracle Recruiting,CN=Microsoft Exchange System Objects,DC=abc,DC=com 2> objectClass: top; publicFolder; 1> cn: Oracle Recruiting; 1> distinguishedName: CN=Oracle Recruiting,CN=Microsoft Exchange System Objects,DC=abc,DC=com; 1> name: Oracle Recruiting; 1> canonicalName: abc.com/Microsoft Exchange System Objects/Oracle Recruiting; ----------- Regards, Ganesh

They are matching for your public folders, is the smtp address currently being used for those public folders?James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

Sorry, its my mistake its typo error. Yes those are public folders which i had deleted.Regards, Ganesh, MCTS, MCP, ITILV2

Do the objects still show up in the AD meso OU (CN=Microsoft Exchange System Objects,DC=abc,DC=com) If so delete it from there as well.James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

Yes, i had deleted as well. I will check and update the same. Thanks for your quick response i appreciate it.Regards, Ganesh, MCTS, MCP, ITILV2

Please also checkthis: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/ad7620c6-b4ab-49a9-bce2-51770c3e50c4/ Hope it is helpful.Fiona

Any udpate? Fiona

I assume the issue is resolved and there is no problem.Fiona

Yes the issue is resolved thanks for all your help.Regards, Ganesh, MCTS, MCP, ITILV2