So you didn't disconnect. You just disabled. I must have missed that little tidbit (you know, the important part).
If you have a little time and a cooperative customer, disconnect her current mailbox, re-enable the old one, delete it, then reconnect the current. It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes. You could also get creative about the mail that might get bounced in those five minutes, by forwarding it to another account then deleting the forwarding. It depends on how important it is that mail always be deliverable, if 5 - 10 minutes really matter that much (or time it so you do it at night). I don't know how else you can get rid of a disabled mailbox since I don't think disabled mailboxes will ever purge. Hopefully someone else has an ingenious plan. I'd just do it the hard way. Michelle -----Original Message----- From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!) I can not reconnect it because it is not listed in the disconnected mailboxes list, which is the original issue. :) Thanks Ehren J. Benson, MCSE Windows Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] 517-884-5469 -----Original Message----- From: Michelle Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!) Can you connect it to another user object and then delete? You obviously can't reconnect it to the orignal user. Michelle Weaver System Administrator - Materials Research Institute Pennsylvania State University -----Original Message----- From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!) Sorry, if it wasn't clear this is exchange 2007. Thanks Ehren J. Benson, MCSE Windows Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] 517-884-5469 From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!) Hi- This should be a quickie.... I learned a while back (the hard way) the difference between "disable" and "remove" for mailboxes. Luckily (or not) it was on my own mailbox. Anyway...there is a user on our systems whose data got completely convoluted by their own doings....so I DISABLED their mailbox and created a new one. Now presumably the old one would go to the "disconnected mailboxes" list and I would delete it for good with this powershell command.... Get-MailboxStatistics <http://www.exchangeninjas.com/Get-mailboxstatistics> -database "server\db" | where {$_.disconnectdate -ne $null} | foreach {Remove-mailbox -database $_.database -storemailboxidentity $_.mailboxguid} Hooooowever for some reason it does not go to the disconnected mailbox list, but I still want to delete it because I don't want this 3.3GB mailbox floating around in limbo somewhere. When I run the powershell command... Get-MailboxStatistics | sort-object TotalItemSize | format-table DisplayName, @{expression={$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()};label="TotalItemSize(MB)"} To see a list of all of our mailboxes with the sizes in MB sorted smallest to biggest I can still see the old one at the bottom of the list (because its huge) and the new one which I am currently filling with all of his good data closer to the top. So its in the system somewhere but not in the disconnected list. How do I smoke the thing? Many thanks! Feel free to copy my PS commands if you don't currently have them in your "handy commands" list J Ehren J. Benson, MCSE Windows Systems Administrator Department of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University 1209 A Biomed Phys Sci [EMAIL PROTECTED] 517-884-5469 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
