How to NOT accept e-mail messages for a resource?

[ITJam]

Hi all,
Where do you configure the setting to NOT accept any e-mail messages for a resource (ie: conference rooms)in Outlook? We recently set up all our conference rooms as resources and users have already sent messages to the rooms inadvertently. The resources are set to automatically respond to meeting requests, but we do not want to maintain the resource mailboxes on a regular basis. Thanks!

 

[techguru69]

This is how we solved it awhile back.
User Account - Exchange General - Delivery Restrictions. Set the maximum receive size limit to 1k. Your users who send mail to that box will get an undeliverable message. If it was like our users, they call the helpdesk and ask whym then we tell them to assign the resource instead.
Reference MS KB Q322679

HTH

 

[ITJam]

Thanks HTH,
I was thinking about doing it that way but we decided to resolve it by setting it to accept messages Only from the Administrator, that way the user gets a response such as
"You do not have permission to send to this recipient. For assistance, contact your system administrator."

Maybe the user will know better the next time!

 

[anawrocki]

We set up a rule to delete the message and respond with instructions on how to correctly "invite" a resource.