Handling Policy Conflicts

If you create a new policy that conflicts with settings in an existing policy, Exchange displays a dialog box that notifies you of the conflict. By default, the newer policy replaces an older policy. For example, you create a server policy with specified configurations, and you want to add the policy to a particular server. However, if the server is already under the control of another policy, a dialog box prompts you to verify whether you want to remove the server from the control of the other policy. You can choose to remove the server from the control of the previous policy, or apply the new policy you just created. If you do not resolve the policy conflict, you receive the following message:

The objectname (for example, Server1) could not be associated with policy policyname (ServerPolicy) because you refused to remove the object from the control of conflicting policies.