Once the account is deleted, the mailboxes are not deleted straightaway by default. They (should) appear in the Disconnected Mailbox section under Recipient Configuration in EMC. But, for some reason it doesn't show up...
To correct this issue, you need to run a shell command. It will perform the same action as a "Run Cleanup Agent" in exchange 2003. The process will scan AD service for disconnected mailboxes that are not yet marked as disconnected in exchange store and update it.
Run Clean-MailboxDatabase "server\database name"
If you head to the Disconnected Mailbox section now, there it is. The deleted mailbox!
You can connect it to a different user, permanently delete it or wait for exchange to purge it depending on your retention settings.
9 comments:
Just what I was looking for!
Many Thanks.
Thanks for the comment, Anonymous!
Thanks. It worked for me too.
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Good to know. Thanks.
Huge help for me in a hurry, thanks for the good info share!!
Thanks.
Whish I had looked into this sooner, wasted half a day struggling with BackupExec. After having given up on that, I had a glimmer of hope realising it could just be a bug that the deleted mailbox wasn't showing up. Lo and behold, there it was.
Thanks! Eventhough now I have to review our backup strategy.
Glad to know that the post helped you.
You saved 3 week of my work. thanks
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