Recipient Type Values on AD attribute

Both mailbox creation and deletion failure scenarios heavily involve verifying the current recipient type values across all directories – especially in a directory synchronized environment. For example; if a user is listed on-prem as a remote mailbox with a cloud archive, then you should expect EXO to have a primary and an archive mailbox for this user. If it doesn’t, then troubleshoot for a synchronization failure somewhere between on-prem and EXO.

The three attributes you will be dealing with are the following, and there are many possible values for each:

  1. msExchRemoteRecipientType
  2. msExchRecipientDisplayType
  3. msExchRecipientTypeDetails


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