Vista - Accessing Exchange 5.5 hidden recipients with PowerShell ADSI

07-21-2008

Per Microsoft KB article 196850, you must use a specific Bind DN to connect
to an Exchange 5.5 server and view hidden recipients and deleted objects via
ADSI/LDAP. I've attempted to follow this guidance in PowerShell, but have
had very little luck. Any suggestion as to how this would be implemented in
the DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher class?

Thanks,

Dan Roberts

07-22-2008

Dan Roberts @ Kent State wrote:

Quote:

> Thanks for your response Marco.
>
> Made sense.. basically you're proposing that the special Bind DN only works
> when querying a specific object, and therefore won't work when running a
> search. I buy that. Unfortunately though it didn't work.
>
> Maybe I'm just not getting the syntax correct.
>
> I have $mailbox = new-object
> DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://mailserver/cn=mailboxname,cn=Recipients,ou=orgunit,o=org,cn=admin", "domain\myusername", "mypassword")
>
> If I take the ",cn=admin" off the end, it works fine for visible mailboxes..
> but as soon as I put it back, it won't even see those.
>
> My account has Service Account Admin permissions at the root and ou level..
> so this should work. Back to the drawing board, I guess.

You also checked this?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185475/

07-21-2008	#1 (permalink)
Dan Roberts @ Kent State n/a posts	Accessing Exchange 5.5 hidden recipients with PowerShell ADSI Per Microsoft KB article 196850, you must use a specific Bind DN to connect to an Exchange 5.5 server and view hidden recipients and deleted objects via ADSI/LDAP. I've attempted to follow this guidance in PowerShell, but have had very little luck. Any suggestion as to how this would be implemented in the DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher class? Thanks, Dan Roberts
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07-22-2008	#2 (permalink)
Marco Shaw [MVP] n/a posts	Re: Accessing Exchange 5.5 hidden recipients with PowerShell ADSI Dan Roberts @ Kent State wrote: Quote: > Thanks for your response Marco. > > Made sense.. basically you're proposing that the special Bind DN only works > when querying a specific object, and therefore won't work when running a > search. I buy that. Unfortunately though it didn't work. > > Maybe I'm just not getting the syntax correct. > > I have $mailbox = new-object > DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://mailserver/cn=mailboxname,cn=Recipients,ou=orgunit,o=org,cn=admin", "domain\myusername", "mypassword") > > If I take the ",cn=admin" off the end, it works fine for visible mailboxes.. > but as soon as I put it back, it won't even see those. > > My account has Service Account Admin permissions at the root and ou level.. > so this should work. Back to the drawing board, I guess. You also checked this? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185475/
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