I am hoping somebody might be able to divert a potential disaster I have created for myself, namely the fact that in a moment of madness I managed to delete the Default E-Mail Addressing policy from AD.
The container CN=Services,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=<Exchange Organization Name>,CN=Recipient Policies
still exists but it is empty so nothing appears in the Email Address Policies tab under Organization Configuration/Hub Transport in ESM.
We are running Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 4 on two identical servers both running all Exchange roles.
One is a live server the second running as a hot standby containing a copy of our Mailbox database in a DAG and replicas of our public folders.
Unfortunately an AD restore from a System State backup is not an option.
Does anybody have ideas on how I can recreate the Default Recipient Policy?
Would a disaster recovery reinstall work? Or recreating our Exchange and DC config within Hyper-V and exporting the subsequently generated object in to our "real" environment?
All our default addressing policy defines is that all Exchange object's SMTP addresses should be of the format
firstname.lastname@ourdomain.com.
Any help or advice you folks can provide would be greatly appreciated.