Recipient Policies are new in the latest version of Exchange Server. They are supposed to provide you a way to conform any of your mail-enabled objects to your standards. They are supposed to ease the overwhelming administrative tasks that are common to the everyday Exchange Administrator. I’ll give you an overview of what they exactly do.

Whether you are new to Exchange Server, or you’ve been around the Exchange "block” a couple of times, Recipient Policies are brand new, and out of the box, can be downright frustrating if you haven’t been keeping up with your Exchange training regimen.

Recipient Policies help to “corral” your Exchange users and simplify the task of site addressing. By applying certain filters in a policy, you can make bulk changes to any mail-enabled object. These policies are particularly useful for businesses with several subsidiaries that may go by their own name but have a separate Internet presence. By changing the way a user account is configured, you can apply these filters, which in turn can make changes to the email addresses for that account.