How to turn off message that your message was forwarded by besadmin

Feb 1, 2010 Technology, Tips & Tricks

The service account used by BES is known as BESAdmin. BESAdmin required Send As permissions on all of the mailboxes within the organization. Once these permissions are setup; service account can forward emails to the devices as if the email was sent by the original sender. There is a complex algorithm in the form of MDS, Mailbox agents and so on runs in background which takes care of it fine.

Since Exchange Server 2007 started grabbing production environments people started implementing BES along with it too. I have always been observing an issue with most of the people that they complain, when they send a meeting request to someone using their BB handheld they are notified that their message was forwarded by BESAdmin or whatever is the name of their BES Service account. This notification looks like:

Your meeting was forwarded

besadmin has forwarded your meeting request to additional recipients.

Meeting

M

Meeting Time

Monday, March 30, 2009 3:00 PM-4:00 PM.

Recipients

‘someone@domain.com’

This is not a non delivery report or an error report either. This is just a notification like other MDNs in Exchange Server 2007.

To resolve this issue. You simply need to disable the forwarded meeting notification on the service account. In my environment I call it, BESAdmin. So here you go with the commandlet.

Get-MailboxCalendarSettings –Identity “BESAdmin” | Select RemoveForwardedMeetingNotifications

Ideally, above command should return the status of the RemoveForwardedMeetingNotifications as $False

Now, you have to set it to true. Run the following cmdlet.

Set-MailboxCalendarSettings –Identity “BESAdmin” -RemoveForwardedMeetingNotifications $True

And that should be it. It should stop all those forwarded meeting notifications.

Tags: BESAdmin, commandlet, exchange, meeting, microsoft, settings