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

Topic Last Modified: 2012-07-23

You can use the EMC or the Shell to remove an e-mail address policy. By default, Exchange contains an e-mail address policy that specifies the recipient's alias as the local part of the e-mail address and uses the default accepted domain. The local part of an e-mail address is the name that appears before the "at" sign (@).This e-mail address policy applies to all users in the organization. You can't remove this e-mail address policy.

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

Note:
If you remove an e-mail address policy that's used by recipients as the primary e-mail address policy, and no other e-mail address policies have been configured for recipients, the default e-mail address policy will be used.

Use the EMC to remove 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 that you want to remove.

  3. In the action pane, click Remove.

  4. A warning appears. Click Yes to confirm that you want to remove the e-mail address policy.

Use the Shell to remove 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.

To remove an e-mail address policy, use the following syntax.

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Remove-EmailAddressPolicy -Identity <EmailAddressPolicyIdParameter>

This example removes the e-mail address policy South East Offices.

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Remove-EmailAddressPolicy -Identity "South East Offices"

Type Y to confirm that you want to remove the e-mail address policy, and then press ENTER.

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Remove-EmailAddressPolicy.