Exchange Tutorials

As mentioned in a previous blog post the end-of-life deadline for Exchange 2003 looms on the horizon. That being said, I discussed last time the process and syntax for upgrading the Recipient Update Policies in Exchange 2003 to the new Email Address Policies in Exchange 2010. Following a similar theme, this post will discuss how to upgrade the Address Lists in Exchange 2003 to 2010.

Like before this process is conducted in the Exchange Management Shell and like before if you tried to edit those Address List in the Exchange Management Console you would receive an error that the Address Lists were created in a legacy version of Exchange and need to be upgraded.

The specified address list could not be edited. Address lists created by using legacy versions of Microsoft Exchange must be upgraded by using the "ForceUpgrade" parameter of the "Set-AddressList" cmdlet.

Typically these are the commands you would need to run.

With Exchange 2003 end-of-life deadline looming ever closer I thought it would be a good time to revisit the syntax for upgrading the Recipient Update Policies in Exchange 2003 to the Email Address Policies in Exchange 2010.

If you have received the error below when you try to double-click or edit an Email Address Policy in the Exchange Management Console, then your Recipient Update Policy still needs to be updated.

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.

To update the Email Address Policy open Exchange Management Shell and issue the command below. This command finds all the current legacy Email Address Policies (Recipient Update Policies from Exchange 2003) and pipes those findings directly into the Set-EmailAddressPolicy cmdlet. This cmdlet converts those Recipient Update Policies into Email Address Policies. You will be prompted to confirm.