Exchange 2007: The sequence of predicates is invalid

Summary: When creating a transport rule I got the following error: "The sequence of predicates is invalid" In this case it appears that the order or predicate rules mattered.

In this example, I was creating a rule to silently drop all messsages coming in from an external address to an internal address.

$Condition = Get-TransportRulePredicate FromAddressContains
$Condition1 = Get-TransportRulePredicate SentTo
$Condition.words = @("externaluser1@gmail.com","externaluser2@gmail.com")
$Condition1.addresses = @(get-mailbox user1)
$Action = Get-TransportRuleAction DeleteMessage
New-TransportRule -Name "Deny Senders to Cellulardeals" -Condition @($Condition,$condition1) -Actions @($Action)

This would yield "The sequence of predicates is invalid" However after swapping the condition to put SentTo before FromAddressContains it works fine.

$Condition = Get-TransportRulePredicate SentTo
$Condition.addresses = @(get-mailbox user1)
$Condition1 = Get-TransportRulePredicate FromAddressContains
$Condition1.words = @("externaluser1@gmail.com","externaluser2@gmail.com")
$Action = Get-TransportRuleAction DeleteMessage
New-TransportRule -Name "Deny Senders to Cellulardeals" -Condition @($Condition,$condition1) -Actions @($Action)



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