Hello I have a single local domain, company.local, with no more than 10 users running windows 2008 sbs with exchange 2007. The exchange was deactivated, but now I'll just deploy and use it for a very single purpose, targeting mobility only. So, for example, I have a user called Conference. (conference@company.local). That user have as main e-mail: john@company.com The exchange will just retrieve e-mail from an external POP3 server and send thru an external SMTP server which e-mail address are "company.com". I have setup Accepted Domains and E-mail Address Policies withcompany.com I ran the best practices analyser, and all is running fine. The next thing would be change default SMTP e-mail address of userConference on exchange from conference@company.com to john@company.com. But exchange won't allow, it returns a error: "The e-mail address for this recipient are automaticaly generated based on e-mail address policies. To modify the primary SMTP address for this recipient, you must disable automatic updating of e-mail addresses based on e-mail address policy". How do I set the policy to be disabled? Even the default policy don't allow that change. I did it before on Exchange 2003 without problems. I can't delete user "Conference"and recreate again,because it's a roaming profile and it would be painful to do. I understand that would be more simple if I can simply change that default SMTP address without problems! I would appreciate any clue. Thank you. MK2

If an e-mail address policy in your Exchange organization applies to this mailbox, the Set as Reply setting will be controlled by that policy. To change the primary address for a specific address type, you must clear the Automatically update e-mail addresses based on recipient policy check box -----------Refer to< Recipient Properties > E-Mail Addresses Tab> True, theres no such error info in the exchange 2003. However, in the exchange 2007, please uncheck the Automatically update e-mail addresses based on e-mail address policy option in the Properties of the mailbox via EMC before we edit the primary address

Or if u want to do that using PowerShell in EMS then Set-mailbox user@domain.com -EmailAddressPolicyEnabled $false Now you can change the primary smtp address of this mailbox to whatever you want as far as Exchange allows it. Regards, Laeeq Qazi

Thank you for that. Didn't realize that would be so simple as unmark that box! apreciated your help guys. MK2