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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Finding who owns an address in MS Exchange

We can find what entity has the selected email address assigned to it as follows:

  • Open the Acive Directory Users and Computers Management Console
  • Right Click on the domain > Select Find
  • Select Custom Search in the Find field
  • Select the Advanced tab
  • To find the entity with the email address user@domain.co.uk for example, enter the following in the LDAP query field:
  • (proxyAddresses=smtp:user@domain.co.uk)
  • This will list the entity containing the email address entered.

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