How can I remove existing ForwardingSmtpAddress ?

Question

_{Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:31 AM | 2 votes}

Hi guys,

I simple question I guess, but the shell is not my greatest strength...

I have set a forwarding adress with Set-Mailbox -ForwardingSmtpAddress [email protected] -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $true, now Iwant to remove the forwarding rule, but how can I specify a blank fowrwrding smtp address? the parameter requires a valid address and I did not found an argument to remove the forwardin adress. I need to do this from Exchange Shell

Thank you

Marius

All replies (9)

_{Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:22 PM ✅Answered | 3 votes}

Set the address to $null should work.

Simon.

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_{Friday, April 1, 2011 6:40 AM}

Hi,

Sembee  is right.

Run this command:

Set-Mailbox –Identity  “ [email protected]”  -ForwardingAddress  $null

 You can check it via EMC.

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_{Monday, April 4, 2011 6:51 PM}

Hi,

How did you get the ForwardingSmtpAddress to work? I've set it and it doesn't seem to do much.

_{Monday, April 4, 2011 8:09 PM}

Hi

it worked in my case

because I have a hosting install, i run the following command:

Get-Mailbox  -Organization organization_name -Identity [email protected] |Set-Mailbox -ForwardingsmtpAddress $null

Marius

_{Monday, June 27, 2011 7:25 PM}

Has anyone had any luck doing this programmatically?  I've tried the following (and 3 other Parameter.Add variations) without success.

Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'ForwardingSmtpAddress'. Cannot convert value "" to type "Microsoft.Exchange.Data.ProxyAddress". Error: "The e-mail address cannot be empty."

Pipeline pipeLine = PsRunspace.CreatePipeline();

Command command = new Command("Set-Mailbox");
command.Parameters.Add("Identity","[email protected]");
command.Parameters.Add("ForwardingSMTPAddress");

pipeLine.Commands.Add(command);
pipeLine.Invoke();

// I've also tried the following without luck
command.Parameters.Add("ForwardingSMTPAddress",null);
command.Parameters.Add("ForwardingSMTPAddress",string.Empty);
command.Parameters.Add("ForwardingSMTPAddress","$null");

_{Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:03 PM}

 Hi,

 I came across your post and trying to set forwarding SMTP address NULL programmatically. When it is null I  get the error "Error: "The e-mail address cannot be empty."" But when I put NULL it does not give any error but it does not set the forwardingSMTPAddress null either.  I will  greatly appreciate if you can share your findings.

Thank You.

RJ

_{Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:14 PM}

In my case worked Get-Mailbox  -Organization OrgName -Identity [email protected] |Set-Mailbox -ForwardingAddress $null

I have a /hosting install. But i never tried it programatically.

Marius

_{Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:39 PM}

It's working indeed when you use Powershell v2.

But running the same command using Powershell v3 (well it's not RTM yet as far as I know) it seems impossible to set the forwardingaddress to $null.

Any idea? Will this be fixed with Powershell v3 RTM

Thanks

_{Wednesday, January 27, 2016 10:59 AM}

Exactly what I needed, good example Thanks