I am migrating to Exchange 2007 from 2003. I am trying to edit the E-mail Address Policies but it tells me I need to upgrade them with set-emailaddresspolicy before I can edit them. The command line is set-emailaddresspolicy -identity <email address policy name> -ForceUpgrade <System Parameter> I dont know what upgrade aprameter to use and am unable to find it in the documentation. Does anyone know what is it suppose to be or what I am missing here. Thanks,

Hi, Having looked at the documentation, I see what you mean. However, I think if you read it from a different perspective then maybe you don't need a parameter after -ForceUpgrade. Have you tried running the command set-emailaddresspolicy -identity <email address policy name> -ForceUpgrade The docs lists the parameters for other commands such as suggesting they take values with comma delimitation. Given that there is no details for the forceupgrade option maybe it doesn't take one. Let me know how you get on Cheers Nathan

I ran into the same problem; the "-ForceUpgrade" switch by itself doesn't seem to do anything. I basically had to recreate the filter along with the -ForceUpgrade switch to get it to work. As an example, let's say I have a recipient policy named EX2K7.COM that I created in Exchange 2003. The policy applies to all mail enabled objects that have a customattribute9 equal to "TEST". When I open this E-Mail Address Policy in ExchangeManagement Console (EMC)I get the "Unable to edit the specified e-mail address policy" warning dialog box and then after clicking ok I can see the old LDAP style recipient filter grayed out. In Exchange Management Shell (EMS) entering: Set-EmailAddressPolicy -Identity 'EX2K7.COM' -ForceUpgrade doesn't do anything; it just reports that the command completed successfully but no settings have been modified. If I enter the following in EMS it succesfully upgrades the policy: Set-EmailAddressPolicy -Identity 'EX2K7.COM' -ForceUpgrade -IncludedRecipients AllRecipients -ConditionalCustomAttribute9 'TEST' After I run this and refresh the screen in EMC I can now view and edit the policy within the GUI. For what it's worth the documentation for the Set-EmailAddressPolicy command in Exchange 2007 help seems to be incomplete because it doesn't say anything else but if you check the help for other commands that use the -ForceUpgrade switch (like Set-GlobalAddressList) it does mention having to use the -ForceUpgrade switch along with a filter parameter. HTH, Mike

FYI in case you've run across this topic while searching on ForceUpgrade parameter, there are a couple of technical blog posts on EHLO blog now that talk about OPATH filters, EAP/AL filter upgrades, the ForceUpgrade switch, etc... OPATH Recipient Filtering for Exchange 2007 - http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/01/10/432143.aspx Address List and EAP Filter Upgrades for Exchange 2007 - http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/01/11/432158.aspx and another one from my blog that might be of use: Do I Really Need to Upgrade My Filters? - http://blogs.technet.com/evand/archive/2007/01/13/do-i-really-need-to-upgrade-my-filters.aspx Cheers - Evan