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DanielNiccoli
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Apr 02, 2019
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Mail redirection without contact? Since when does this work and what is the technical background?

Hey guys,   I was used to having to create a contact to be able to redirect mails to external contacts. I would do this in the Exchange Control Panel.     I just noticed that in the user s...
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    mderooij
    Apr 02, 2019

    Within the UI you used to need to pick an entry from the GAL; using PowerShell you could always do something like Set-Mailbox -Identity ID -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $true -ForwardingSMTPAddress username@contoso.com, provided global AutoForward setting was enabled (by default Set-RemoteDomain Default -AutoForwardEnabled $true, or for a specific domain to allow forwarding to)

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mderooij
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Apr 02, 2019

Within the UI you used to need to pick an entry from the GAL; using PowerShell you could always do something like Set-Mailbox -Identity ID -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $true -ForwardingSMTPAddress username@contoso.com, provided global AutoForward setting was enabled (by default Set-RemoteDomain Default -AutoForwardEnabled $true, or for a specific domain to allow forwarding to)

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