Update Exchange Policies to 2010

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Exchange Update Policy

I was working at a customer site who had recently upgraded from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. When I went to edit one of their policies, I received an error message via the Exchange Management Console (EMC). Based upon this error, I realized that the policies had not been upgraded.

Here is the step-by-step how to guide to upgrade Exchange policies to 2010.

  1. Open the Exchange Management Shell:
    • Login to your Exchange server
    • Select Programs | Exchange… | Exchange Management Shell
    • What looks like a DOS prompt appears, wait for it to present you a power shell prompt, which looks like “[PS] c:\windows\system32>” or similar.
  2. Run the command:
    • Set-EmailAddressPolicy “Default Policy” -IncludedRecipients AllRecipients
    • Enter either “A” for all or “Y” for yes when prompted.
  3. Validate the change:
    • Get-EmailAddressPolicy | Format-List name, recipienttype, exchangeversion
    • Look for Exchange version staring with 0.1 — these are upgraded
  4. Repeat for each policy:
    • For every policy repeat steps (2) and (3) above.