Re: SBS 2000, Exchange won't allow me to change primary account

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From: Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] (kweilbacMVP_at_gte.net)
Date: 08/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 06:50:31 -0400

When you go into AD User > Properties > Email Addresses tab, make sure both
abc.org and abc.com are listed. If not add, it. Then highlight the abc.com,
and select as Primary.

But, before closing this screen, at the bottom of that screen UNcheck the
'automatically update email...' option. 

-- 
Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
"Dale Walker" <dale@sorted.org> wrote in message 
news:8t7hh0tfd9d25hhd5oetmd5d1vvfbvs7ub@4ax.com...
> We've got an SBS 2k setup and have several email addresses (abc.org,
> abc.com, abc.co.uk, etc.) for each client. SBS was set up using the
> abc.org setup with the others as secondary addresses for each user.
> All mail can be received on any email address so that side of things
> is working fine.
>
> However, we'd rather have the primary to be abc.com. Unfortunately, I
> can no longer seem to be able to select a different 'Primary' account.
> The option to change is there and the dialog boxes allow me to go
> through the procedure and appears to have succeeded at the end of the
> process but if I click back into the dialog box, I see that everything
> is back the way it was.
>
> This is driving me nuts. There are no error messages in the event
> viewer. Everything appears to be running fine except this.
> Please help,
>
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