You can still access a disabled mailbox by assigning mailbox rights to someone else, like a manager. This is a very common scenario for resource mailboxes, such as conference rooms and such. You want the account to be disabled, but you still need to grant full mailbox access within Outlook. No problem.
Jason Clishe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan Mann Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:49 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Active Directory Disabled Accounts The method has a few benefits. First, I remove a user from all distro lists so they don't get excess mail. Second, I disable login hours and reset the password for security reasons. Third, the mailbox still exists and is accessible by simply adding back logon hours. Managers frequently want to go through the users mail, or turn on an out of office assistant. With this method, we can give them the password and they can go in through Web Outlook to do their deeds. If I disable the account, you can't login, and if I delete the account, mail bounces, so you can't do the out of office situation... Although, I am not a fan of the out of office message for terminated people. I prefer to give live access to the box to the manager so they can monitor and send out notice proactively to people who continue to e-mail the terminated user. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Clishe Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Active Directory Disabled Accounts As long as "Self" has the "Associated external account" right in the mailbox rights of the account, a disabled account can receive mail. Your method sounds like a pain in the arse to me. Jason Clishe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan Mann Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:29 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Active Directory Disabled Accounts When you disable an account in AD you effectively "turn off" the mailbox. Any mail sent to that box will bounce and you can't access the mailbox. When we have terminated employees, we remove them from distro lists, hide them from the GAL, change the password, and change logon hours to none. This way the account can still receive mail and the box can be opened if necessary to be manipulated. I never bothered to see if there is a way to allow email to go to a disabled account, or still access the box. The above method works well. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McCready, Robert Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:23 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Active Directory Disabled Accounts We had a user who recently quit and his account was disabled in Active Directory. Now, we want to get into his mailbox and setup his Out of Office Assistant with a message saying "please contact such and such". However, we can't open his mailbox. I know I saw a Technet article on this once, referring to Exchange 2003 and Active Directory/disabling accounts, but I can't find it now. Thanks. 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