It has been a while. I have an Exchange 2003 Server and Server 2003/Ad in Interm mode. If I hide a user from the global address book, will that cause the messages to bounce? Or is it only when the users is disabled in AD. I believe that messages will be ok if hidden in the Global address book but wanted to confirm. Thanks

No hiding it will still allow email to flow. Only when you disable the account will email bounce. What we usually do is change the password and hide the mailbox Later if we want someone to handle email for that ex-employee we just add the users email address as an alias to the account/user that will be handling it and then we can disable the account or delete it if desired. Troy Werelius Lucid8

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That is what I thought, just wanted to confirm my thinking