Client has about 35 users and is using Exchange 2007 installed on Windows 2003 64 bit with Outlook 2007 clients. They are changing their email domain soon. Client wants that after the change any email send to the old email domain be forwarded to her email box only and not go to the intended recipient. I know that can be done at the mailbox level but have never done that at the alias/additional email address level and do not even know if it is possible. For example email domain is now @olddomain.com and they are changing it to @newdomain.com. They already have the domain, MX records will be added, new accepted domain will be added, and new email address policy will be created, put at top priority and applied. Once that is done they want any email sent to any users @olddomain.com forwarded to specificuser@newdomain.com to track who did not get message about new email change and for intended user to not get the email. In general I think that is a bad idea because she will be overwhelmed and that email should just go to intended user who can monitor if some outside senders are not using new email address. In any case I am just wondering if this is possible because I want to know all the technical options just in case. The only one I can think of is after new email address policy is applied to go into every mailbox properties, uncheck automatically update email address based on policy, delete old email address of each user, and then put those email addresses in her email box as additional email addresses. However I just don't think that is a good idea as that could have unintended consequences causing some email disruption. Any thoughts or experiences on what to do in this situation. Any replies welcome!! Thanks! --- Steve

you can easily set a hub transport rule... however it is tricky because you will need to set it on the recipient domain, here is an article I wrote about how to do it http://www.zerohoursleep.com/2010/05/hub-transport-rule-based-on-recipients-domain/ you can just run the script as is (depending on your exchange version) and then change the action from GUI to redirect message to "wanted user" Full time IT consultant since 1998 mainly on Exchange\ISA\AD MCSE NT4.0,2000/2003, CCNA MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2007/2010 MCT since 2001

Thanks! I was just checking out hub transport rules and so far it works in my test network using Exchange 2007 SP1 rollup 9. I used a GUI and created a transport rule and under conditions select when a message header contains specific words, for message header added "to" without the quotes and in domain added "domainname.com" without the quotes. Then for action it worked selecting either copy the message to addresses or redirect message to addresses depending on if you wanted the intended recipent to get the email or not and so far it works. This is great!! Thanks! Steve