Reassign email address to one user to another

[spiff2002]

How do I move an email address from one user to another?

 

[Marcs41]

You don't 'move' it, you rename the address you want to 'move' and then give that address to the other.

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[Davetoo]

The simplest way would be just to give the new user full access rights to the mailbox in question, and remove the original users rights. You do this through ADUC, select Advanced View, then Exchange Advanced.

Of course, if the original user is no longer with the company, just delete the user, mark his mailbox for deletion, run the clean up agent in SM, then reattach it to the new user who has been mail enabled.

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[tencevaines]

lander215 has hit the nail on the head, that is if you want to also give that user all the old mail.

If you don't need that new user to have the old mail and contacts etc, you just want them to have that email address then simply open the current owners AD account properties, and remove the address from them. Then open the new "soon to be" owner of the email addy, and add the email address to thier AD account (that is assuming they already have a mailbox on the exchange server of course).

Cheers.

 

[spiff2002]

I'm sorry about the lack of information on my problem. I have two user with maiboxes each. user1@domain.com and user2@domain.com are their primary emails addresses. In addition we have a address like jobs@domain.com that belongs to user1 since she's in charge of receiving resumes. Now they want to take that responsability from user1 adn give it to user2 but when I try to create an SMTP address to user2 I get an error message saying that the address already exists. i delete the address from user1 and try again and I got the same error. I rebuild recipients lists for enterprise and server but still no success. Any ideas anyone??

 

[Davetoo]

Easiest thing for you to do is to go to System Manager, navigate to your mailbox store, run the cleanup agent and delete the mailbox.

Then go back to ADUC and create a new dummy user for the jobs mailbox, assign it an Exchange mailbox, then grant full access to user2.

This way, user2 can open up the second mailbox separate from their regular mailbox and the email in each won't mix and mingle. To open the second mailbox for user2, you go to Exchange/Services/Microsoft Exchange Server/Advanced tab and you'll see where to add the second mailbox.

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[spiff2002]

When you say:
"Easiest thing for you to do is to go to System Manager, navigate to your mailbox store, run the cleanup agent and delete the mailbox." you meant delete the SMTP address from user1?? I can't delete user1's Mailbox I would get fired in 2 seconds!!!

 

[spiff2002]

Well now it worked. I guess I was trying to add the email address to user2 too fast after deleting it from user1 and I never gave enough time to the system to update the recipients list. Thanks a lot everybody

 

[Davetoo]

My bad, interpreted your problem to be with mailboxes, not SMTP addresses.

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