Forwarding email to ex-employees

30 May 2006 10:05 AM

Martin Smulian

I am running SBS2003 with Exchange 2003 (all patched and service packs).

I have several ex-employees that we wish to forward email to (for at least 6
months) and would alos like to remove their accounts from exchange, to keep the
user count down for av/anti-spam user licence counts.

Proposed solution:

For each ex-employee create a Contact with their new email address
For each employee create a global distribution group with their old email
address(es) added to Email-Addresses and the Contact created above added to
Members
Backup & store their old email account; then Remove Exchange Attributes and
disable the user.

Can anyone tell me if what there is any downside to what I wish to do, or if a
better solution exists.

Many thanks,

Martin
Martin
Just another confused user

30 May 2006 3:35 PM

Bharat Suneja [MVP]

- Exchange licensing is not based on number of mailboxes
- Creating Contacts, inserting the employees' forwarding address as the
targetAddress and having their current email address in proxyAddresses for
the Contact object should work - no need to create a Distribution Group as
such

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"Martin Smulian" <mar***@msmulian.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I am running SBS2003 with Exchange 2003 (all patched and service packs).
>
> I have several ex-employees that we wish to forward email to (for at least
> 6
> months) and would alos like to remove their accounts from exchange, to
> keep the
> user count down for av/anti-spam user licence counts.
>
> Proposed solution:
>
> For each ex-employee create a Contact with their new email address
> For each employee create a global distribution group with their old email
> address(es) added to Email-Addresses and the Contact created above added
> to
> Members
> Backup & store their old email account; then Remove Exchange Attributes
> and
> disable the user.
>
> Can anyone tell me if what there is any downside to what I wish to do, or
> if a
> better solution exists.
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Martin
> Martin
> Just another confused user

30 May 2006 6:43 PM

Martin Smulian

Thanks for the advice, I have tried it and it works fine.

It is not the exchange licence count I am trying to limit; the av/anti-psm
softare counts the number of exchange users, hence my need to remove users once
they have left.

Martin

"Bharat Suneja [MVP]" <bharatsuneja@no.spam.org> wrote:

>- Exchange licensing is not based on number of mailboxes
>- Creating Contacts, inserting the employees' forwarding address as the
>targetAddress and having their current email address in proxyAddresses for
>the Contact object should work - no need to create a Distribution Group as
>such

Martin
Just another confused user