RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
Have you tried this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124076(EXCHG.80).aspx
This is clean-mailbox, and it's to get rid of mailboxes that don't get
marked properly in system manager.
-Original Message-
From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:15 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
Since they are still in the system I believe there is a way you can
get the guid of the bad mailbox and get rid of it with a powershell
command but of course I haven't figured out how to do that.
I already tried what you suggest and it is suprising that it didn't
work. Generally when you 'disable' a mailbox it goes into the
disconnected area and I use the PS command I pasted before to get rid of
it. Its unexpected that it not show up in the disconnected area.
If anyone knows how to do what I think works above I would love to know
the commands, I will keep looking in the meantime.
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 2:45 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
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 doingsso 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
$_.mailboxguid}
However for some reason it does not go to the disconnected mailbox
list, but I still want to delete it because I don't want this 3.3GB
mailbox floating around in limbo somewhere. When I run the powershell
command...
Get-MailboxStatistics | sort-object TotalItemSize | format-table
DisplayName,
@{expression={$_.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
RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
Thanks to Alex and Michelle for the answer! Once I ran Clean-MailboxDatabase
-Identity server\db they showed up in disconnected as expected.
There are so many cmdlets that its hard to know them all! I remember there was
a function similar to this in exchange 2003 where you would right click a
mailbox database and click cleanup or something similar. Figured there had to
be something like that.
Thanks so much.
Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
Windows Systems Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
517-884-5469
-Original Message-
From: Michelle Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:34 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
Have you tried this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124076(EXCHG.80).aspx
This is clean-mailbox, and it's to get rid of mailboxes that don't get
marked properly in system manager.
-Original Message-
From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:15 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
Since they are still in the system I believe there is a way you can
get the guid of the bad mailbox and get rid of it with a powershell
command but of course I haven't figured out how to do that.
I already tried what you suggest and it is suprising that it didn't
work. Generally when you 'disable' a mailbox it goes into the
disconnected area and I use the PS command I pasted before to get rid of
it. Its unexpected that it not show up in the disconnected area.
If anyone knows how to do what I think works above I would love to know
the commands, I will keep looking in the meantime.
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 2:45 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
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 doingsso 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
$_.mailboxguid}
However for some reason it does not go to the disconnected mailbox
list, but I still want to delete it because I don't want this 3.3GB
mailbox floating around in limbo somewhere. When I run the powershell
RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
Sorry, if it wasn't clear this is exchange 2007.
Thanks
Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
Windows Systems Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
517-884-5469
From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:04 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
Hi-
This should be a quickie
I learned a while back (the hard way) the difference between disable and
remove for mailboxes. Luckily (or not) it was on my own mailbox.
Anyway...there is a user on our systems whose data got completely convoluted by
their own doingsso I DISABLED their mailbox and created a new one. Now
presumably the old one would go to the disconnected mailboxes list and I
would delete it for good with this powershell command
Get-MailboxStatisticshttp://www.exchangeninjas.com/Get-mailboxstatistics
-database server\db | where {$_.disconnectdate -ne $null} | foreach
{Remove-mailbox -database $_.database -storemailboxidentity $_.mailboxguid}
However for some reason it does not go to the disconnected mailbox list,
but I still want to delete it because I don't want this 3.3GB mailbox floating
around in limbo somewhere. When I run the powershell command...
Get-MailboxStatistics | sort-object TotalItemSize | format-table DisplayName,
@{expression={$_.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 :)
Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
Windows Systems Administrator
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
1209 A Biomed Phys Sci
[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
517-884-5469
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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 doingsso 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
$_.mailboxguid}
However for some reason it does not go to the disconnected mailbox
list, but I still want to delete it because I don't want this 3.3GB
mailbox floating around in limbo somewhere. When I run the powershell
command...
Get-MailboxStatistics | sort-object TotalItemSize | format-table
DisplayName,
@{expression={$_.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~
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 doingsso 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
$_.mailboxguid}
However for some reason it does not go to the disconnected mailbox
list, but I still want to delete it because I don't want this 3.3GB
mailbox floating around in limbo somewhere. When I run the powershell
command...
Get-MailboxStatistics | sort-object TotalItemSize | format-table
DisplayName,
@{expression={$_.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~
RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
Another interesting tidbit is when I use get-mailboxstatistics I can see all 3
of this guys mailboxes (only one of them being the one that is actually in use,
the other 2 were 'disabled') however when I use get-mailbox it only shows the
one that is currently enabled and in use.
Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
Windows Systems Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
517-884-5469
-Original Message-
From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:15 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
Since they are still in the system I believe there is a way you can get the
guid of the bad mailbox and get rid of it with a powershell command but of
course I haven't figured out how to do that.
I already tried what you suggest and it is suprising that it didn't work.
Generally when you 'disable' a mailbox it goes into the disconnected area and I
use the PS command I pasted before to get rid of it. Its unexpected that it
not show up in the disconnected area.
If anyone knows how to do what I think works above I would love to know the
commands, I will keep looking in the meantime.
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 2:45 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
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 doingsso 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
$_.mailboxguid}
However for some reason it does not go to the disconnected mailbox
list, but I still want to delete it because I don't want this 3.3GB
mailbox floating around in limbo somewhere. When I run the powershell
command...
Get-MailboxStatistics | sort-object TotalItemSize | format-table
DisplayName,
@{expression={$_.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
Re: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
Have you tried running clean-mailboxdatabase against that particular mdb?
that should check those mailboxes again and mark those that are disconnected
as such.
-alex
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Ehren Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Another interesting tidbit is when I use get-mailboxstatistics I can see
all 3 of this guys mailboxes (only one of them being the one that is
actually in use, the other 2 were 'disabled') however when I use get-mailbox
it only shows the one that is currently enabled and in use.
Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
Windows Systems Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
517-884-5469
-Original Message-
From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:15 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
Since they are still in the system I believe there is a way you can get
the guid of the bad mailbox and get rid of it with a powershell command
but of course I haven't figured out how to do that.
I already tried what you suggest and it is suprising that it didn't work.
Generally when you 'disable' a mailbox it goes into the disconnected area
and I use the PS command I pasted before to get rid of it. Its unexpected
that it not show up in the disconnected area.
If anyone knows how to do what I think works above I would love to know the
commands, I will keep looking in the meantime.
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 2:45 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing mailboxes (for good dang it!)
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 doingsso 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
$_.mailboxguid}
However for some reason it does not go to the disconnected mailbox
list, but I still want to delete it because I don't want this 3.3GB
mailbox floating around in limbo somewhere. When I run the powershell
command...
Get-MailboxStatistics | sort-object TotalItemSize | format-table
DisplayName,
@{expression={$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()};label=TotalItemSize(MB)}
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