{"id":7445,"date":"2023-12-19T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T09:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=7445"},"modified":"2023-12-19T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T09:55:18","slug":"there-are-multiple-recipients-matching-the-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/exchange\/there-are-multiple-recipients-matching-the-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"There are multiple recipients matching the identity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to add someone to an Exchange Online distribution group and got the following error:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"\">Ex8155FB|Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.ManagementObjectAmbiguousException|There are multiple recipients matching the identity \"abc@def.com\". Please specify a unique value.<\/pre>\n<p>The solution for this is to do a search like this:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">Get-EXORecipient -ResultSize unlimited | Where-Object { $_.EmailAddresses -match \"&lt;part of the address&gt;\" } | Format-List Alias,Name,DisplayName,@{Name=\"EmailAddresses\";Expression={$_.EmailAddresses -join ';'}}<\/pre>\n<p>That will show you the conflicting Exchange objects. Removing the offending one, or use the <code>Id<\/code> property to add the user.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to add someone to an Exchange Online distribution group and got the following error: Ex8155FB|Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.ManagementObjectAmbiguousException|There are multiple recipients matching the identity &#8220;abc@def.com&#8221;. Please specify a unique value. The solution for this is to do a search like this: Get-EXORecipient -ResultSize unlimited | Where-Object { $_.EmailAddresses -match &#8220;&lt;part of the address&gt;&#8221; } | &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/exchange\/there-are-multiple-recipients-matching-the-identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There are multiple recipients matching the identity&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7446,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7445\/revisions\/7446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}