{"id":615,"date":"2011-06-16T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=615"},"modified":"2022-11-05T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:53:42","slug":"exchange-2003-to-exchange-2010-mailbox-move-fails-with-error-property-expression-isnt-valid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Mailbox Move Fails with &#8220;Error: Property Expression <blah> Isn&#8217;t Valid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were moving our mailbox from our old Exchange 2003 server to a new Exchange 2010 server, we moved the vast majority of people no problems, however there were about 10 or so users who we had this error with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Problem:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Property expression &lt;blah> isn&#8217;t valid. Valid values are: &#8230;..&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the user&#8217;s mailbox on Exchange 2003 worked fine, we could access and change any of the properties via ADUC on Windows 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We couldn&#8217;t move the mailbox or edit any of its properties in Exchange 2010 management tools, we just got an error message saying similar to above about an invalid character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon opening the ADUC and checking for the invalid fields we found that the users &#8220;Alias&#8221; field under &#8220;Exchange General&#8221; tab was set to the users email address containing an @ (at symbol), this was what was causing the issue. When I changed the &#8220;alias&#8221; field just to be the users name (rather than the email address) I could move the folder and access the properties no problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were moving our mailbox from our old Exchange 2003 server to a new Exchange 2010 server, we moved the vast majority of people no problems, however there were about 10 or so users who we had this error with. Problem: &#8220;Property expression &lt;blah> isn&#8217;t valid. Valid values are: &#8230;..&#8221; Now the user&#8217;s mailbox on &#8230; <a title=\"Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Mailbox Move Fails with &#8220;Error: Property Expression  Isn&#8217;t Valid\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=615\" aria-label=\"Read more about Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Mailbox Move Fails with &#8220;Error: Property Expression  Isn&#8217;t Valid\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}