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Ethical wall does not function as expected when the ReportToOriginatorEnabled property is disabled in an Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010 coexistence environment

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Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:
  • You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010 coexistence environment.
  • There are two distribution lists in the environment (distribution list A and distribution list B).
  • You configure an ethical wall by creating a transport rule that prevents the members of the distribution lists from sending email messages between the lists.
  • You set the ReportToOriginatorEnabled property to false for the distribution lists.
  • An Exchange Server 2003 user (user A) who is a member of distribution list A sends an email message to an Exchange Server 2010 user (user B) who is a member of distribution list B.
In this scenario, the ethical wall does not function as expected. Therefore, user B receives user A’s email message.

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Cause

This issue occurs because the Hub Transport server sets user A’s email address to an empty value.

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Resolution

To resolve this issue, install the following update rollup:
2803727 Description of Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3

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Workaround

To work around this issue, set the ReportToOriginatorEnabled property to true for each distribution list.

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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More Information

For more information about ethical walls, go to the following Microsoft website:
General information about ethical wall
For more information about how to configure an ethical wall, go to the following Microsoft website:
General information about how to configure an ethical wall
For more information about how to configure the ReportToOriginatorEnabled property by running the Set-DistributionGroup cmdlet, go to the following Microsoft website:
General information about the Set-DistributionGroup cmdlet

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Article Info
Article ID : 2784210
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 5/30/2013
Exists online : False
Views : 329