Searching AD for SMTP User Alias' 1

[Bedpan]

Hopefully a stupid question.. But I cannot figure it out. Many of our users have email alias' created for there account. For example, sales@example.com, marketing@example.com as well as there primary user@example.com.

What I need is a way to search AD to find out who has these alias'. There are a number spread around and I no longer know who owns them. I would prefer to find a search function that allows me to find them rather then sending an email to them to know if they exist and who has them.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[crobin1]

The following CSVDE query will return a CSV file with the Proxy Addresses for all of your accounts (this works in a Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 environment, but should work for Windows 2000/Exchange 2000 as well). Replace the items in brackets with your particular information:

csvde -f proxy.csv -s <servername> -d "cn=Users,dc=<yourdomain>,dc=<yourdomainextension>" -p subtree -r "(objectClass=person)" -l "proxyAddresses"

For example:

csvde -f proxy.csv -s domcontroller1 -d "cn=Users,dc=testdomain,dc=com" -p subtree -r "(objectClass=person)" -l "proxyAddresses"

Open the resulting file in Notepad or Excel and search for the addresses.

 

[Bedpan]

Crobin!

Many thanks.. will give this ago.. I am really surprised there is no way to do this using the AD search function.. I guess it is an Exchange Schema Extension that just has not accounted for.

Regardless. Many thanks!

Mike

 

[crobin1]

Using the Advanced tab of the Find function in AD Users & Computers, you can search for Proxy Addresses. However, searching for items that can have multiple occurences (such as Proxy Addresses or Member Of) has never worked for me. While I haven't researched it, I assume it is a limitation of the Find function.

Also, when I'm looking for something like this I want to analyze it and so prefer it in CSV format anyway.

 

[Bedpan]

Crobin;

Thats what I found as well.. Searching on the Proxy address would not work.. Alas.. I will give the CSVDE a go.. I guess if nothing else it will get me motivated to start dumping some Data from AD for recording purposes.

Mike

 

[robros]

Crobin;

I am new to exchange management and I saw this and would like to try it. Where would the code above be run from and should this file be saved as a .vbs?

Forgive me I am new to this you can only learn so much from a book.



Your Al Meyers Kid..You Look Pretty Stupid To me.

 

[crobin1]

It is actually a command-line program, so you could save it as a .BAT or .CMD file. I usually run the command on my main domain controller so it doesn't have to talk to Active Directory across the network.