ExBPA "you have no recipient policies"   

Has anyone got this error before. We've only been getting it quite recently, 
as we've been retiring Exchange 5.5 servers. With MS's help we've been 
looking at this every which way, with ADSIEdit, and we can see that as far 
as AD is concerned this seems demonstrably not so.

There doesn't seem to be any problem with mail delivery, adding users, etc. 
etc.

We have one Exchange 5.5 server left to delete from the Directory and we'd 
like to get that done but we learned quite recently that if our Recipient 
Policy does disappear it requires an authoritative restore of the Active 
Directory which seems like quite a downside risk.

Has anyone else got such a false positive and if so what is there that can 
be done about it?

date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:40:22 -0500   author:   Guppy

Re: ExBPA "you have no recipient policies"   

Sorry. The exact error message is "Recipient Policies Missing"

"Guppy"  wrote in message 
news:e5XY65OMGHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Has anyone got this error before. We've only been getting it quite 
> recently, as we've been retiring Exchange 5.5 servers. With MS's help 
> we've been looking at this every which way, with ADSIEdit, and we can see 
> that as far as AD is concerned this seems demonstrably not so.
>
> There doesn't seem to be any problem with mail delivery, adding users, 
> etc. etc.
>
> We have one Exchange 5.5 server left to delete from the Directory and we'd 
> like to get that done but we learned quite recently that if our Recipient 
> Policy does disappear it requires an authoritative restore of the Active 
> Directory which seems like quite a downside risk.
>
> Has anyone else got such a false positive and if so what is there that can 
> be done about it?
>

date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:58:18 -0500   author:   Guppy

Re: ExBPA "you have no recipient policies"   

Hi Guppy,

If you export, zip and send me your output XML file I'll debug this and tell 
you exactly what's going on. I coded this part of ExBPA, so I'm to blame if 
you're hitting a bug. Send your zip to exbpafb@microsoft.REMOVETHIS.com

Cheers,
-- 
Paul Bowden
Program Manager
Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/analyzers

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Guppy"  wrote in message 
news:Oi$D8DPMGHA.1532@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Sorry. The exact error message is "Recipient Policies Missing"
>
> "Guppy"  wrote in message 
> news:e5XY65OMGHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Has anyone got this error before. We've only been getting it quite 
>> recently, as we've been retiring Exchange 5.5 servers. With MS's help 
>> we've been looking at this every which way, with ADSIEdit, and we can see 
>> that as far as AD is concerned this seems demonstrably not so.
>>
>> There doesn't seem to be any problem with mail delivery, adding users, 
>> etc. etc.
>>
>> We have one Exchange 5.5 server left to delete from the Directory and 
>> we'd like to get that done but we learned quite recently that if our 
>> Recipient Policy does disappear it requires an authoritative restore of 
>> the Active Directory which seems like quite a downside risk.
>>
>> Has anyone else got such a false positive and if so what is there that 
>> can be done about it?
>>
>
>

date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:09:10 -0800   author:   Paul Bowden [MSFT]