Recovering Disabled Mailboxes

Spyro Polymiadis · Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 8

Hi there,

I was wondering if someone could assist me, (Sorry if this is the wrong
news group, but I couldnt see one for 2007)

Ive been playing with exchange 2007, and testing features etc..

Now, Ive noticed there is a "disable mailbox" and a "remove mailbox"

I have performed each of those commands on different test accounts,
believing that either command should allow me to still reconnect their
mailbox to another user...

I performed Disable Mailbox on an account, and the mailbox seems like
its now disappeared, ie, its not showing as a disconnected mailbox.. but
the AD user remained...

I did a remove mailbox on another account, and that ended up removing
the user from AD, but the mailbox then showed as a disconnected mailbox.

The question I have is.. how can I recover/reconnect a mailbox that ive
run "disabled mailbox" on? as I cant see it in the disconnected mailbox
section...

Cheers
Spyro

Archived from group: microsoft>public>exchange2000>admin

Leif Pedersen [ MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 232

Hi,

The mailbox will end up in the disconnected mailbox section eventually
(assuming that you have configured retention time for mailboxes).

From there you can reconnect the mailbox to a new user.

Leif

"Spyro Polymiadis" skrev i meddelelsen @corp.supernews.com...
> Hi there,
>
> I was wondering if someone could assist me, (Sorry if this is the wrong
> news group, but I couldnt see one for 2007)
>
> Ive been playing with exchange 2007, and testing features etc..
>
> Now, Ive noticed there is a "disable mailbox" and a "remove mailbox"
>
> I have performed each of those commands on different test accounts,
> believing that either command should allow me to still reconnect their
> mailbox to another user...
>
> I performed Disable Mailbox on an account, and the mailbox seems like its
> now disappeared, ie, its not showing as a disconnected mailbox.. but the
> AD user remained...
>
> I did a remove mailbox on another account, and that ended up removing the
> user from AD, but the mailbox then showed as a disconnected mailbox.
>
> The question I have is.. how can I recover/reconnect a mailbox that ive
> run "disabled mailbox" on? as I cant see it in the disconnected mailbox
> section...
>
> Cheers
> Spyro

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