The Specified E-mail Address Policy Couldn’t Be Edited.

Written by Allen White on April 15, 2011. Posted in Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010, Microsoft, Server 2008

IT Problem

If you have a 2010 exchange server and also a legacy exchange 2003 server, when you try and edit the recipient update policy then you may see the error below.

The specified e-mail address policy couldn’t be edited. E-mail address policies created with legacy versions of Exchange must be upgraded using the ‘Set-EmailAddressPolicy’ task, with the Exchange 2010 Recipient Filter specified

IT Solution

We need to use the set-emailaddresspolicy cmdlet to set the the exchange 2010 server to be able to manage the recipient policy.

OK so open up the exchange power shell console and copy and paste the below text into it then press return.

Get-EmailAddressPolicy | where {$_.RecipientFilterType –eq “Legacy”} | Set-EmailAddressPolicy –IncludedRecipients AllRecipients

Restart the exchange 2010 console and you will now be able to edit the recipent policy in exchange 2010

Tags: recipent policy

Allen White

Allen is an IT Consultant and holds the following accreditations. MCSA, MCSE, MCTS, MCITP, CCA, CCSP, VCP 4,5, 6 and HP ASE, AIS - Network Infrastructure.

Comments (3)

Stan Komarniski

July 7, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

Thank you for a simple solution to a very frustrating issue…

nice to finally get this fixed on my server

Stan…

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Philip Lakic

August 7, 2014 at 5:25 am | #

Worked like a charm! Thank you.

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behanm

August 26, 2014 at 12:21 pm | #

Hey , I just want to say thank you so so much! I have spent 1 hour browsing and I finally came across this ! thank you again , god bless you man .

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