Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Topic Last Modified: 2011-03-19

Use the Change Priority dialog box to change the priority of your e-mail address policies.

When you create an e-mail address policy in the Exchange Management Console (EMC), or when you create a policy in the Exchange Management Shell and don't define the priority, by default, the new e-mail address policy will be assigned a priority of 1. However, if you already specified a priority for the policy, subsequent policies that you create will be assigned a lower priority.

For example, let's say you already have two e-mail address policies, and you used the EMC or the Shell to assign them priorities of 1 and 2. If you create another policy, it will automatically be assigned a priority of 3. However, let's say you have two policies, and you used the EMC or the Shell to specify that one of them is priority 1, but the other policy was assigned a default priority of 2 when it was created. In this case, the next policy you create will, by default, become the priority 2 policy. The previous priority 2 policy will be assigned a priority of 3.

Note:
You can't change the priority of the Default Policy. The Default Policy's priority will always be "Lowest".

Looking for other management tasks related to e-mail address policies? Check out Managing E-Mail Address Policies.

What Do You Want to Do?

Use the EMC to change the priority of an e-mail address policy

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "E-mail address policies" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.

  1. In the console tree, navigate to Organization Configuration > Hub Transport.

  2. In the result pane, click the E-Mail Address Policies tab, and then select the e-mail address policy for which you want to change the priority.

  3. In the action pane, click Change Priority.

    Note:
    This action is available only when you have more than one e-mail address policy (not including the default policy).
  4. In Change E-mail Address Policy Priority, type the priority number for the e-mail address policy.

    Note:
    You can't change the priority to a level higher than the number of e-mail address policies you currently have in your organization.
  5. Click OK.

Use the Shell to change the priority of an e-mail address policy

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "E-mail address policies" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.

This example changes the priority of the e-mail address policy Conference Rooms to priority 5.

Note:
You can't change the priority to a level higher than the number of e-mail address policies you currently have in your organization.
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Set-EmailAddressPolicy -Identity "Conference Rooms" -Priority 5

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