{"id":239,"date":"2010-01-06T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T09:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wouter.shush.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2013-11-10T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T17:55:10","slug":"lost-your-disconnected-mailboxes-on-exchange-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wouter.shush.com\/nl\/2010\/01\/06\/lost-your-disconnected-mailboxes-on-exchange-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost your disconnected mailboxes on Exchange 2007?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;re happily clicking and typing away, and you need to relink a mailbox to another AD user.\u00a0 So you do the obvious:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go into the Exchange 2007 Management Console (or Shell)<\/li>\n<li>Find the mailbox in the Recipient Configuration<\/li>\n<li>Write down the server the mailbox is stored<\/li>\n<li>Disconnect the mailbox from the original AD user<\/li>\n<li>Get a list of disconnected mailboxes on the server you wrote down<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Only to find that the mailbox is not listed. Panic!<\/p>\n<p>Did you forget to check the Deletion Settings on the mailbox store? No, on second glance they are the default 30 days, so the disconnected mailbox should still be available.<\/p>\n<p>But, wait&#8230; On Exchange 2003, didn&#8217;t you run the Cleanup Agent to find disconnected mailboxes?<\/p>\n<p>No such a thing in Exchange 2007, or is there?<\/p>\n<p>Yes there is.\u00a0 <a title=\"Clean-MailboxDatabase\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb124076%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Clean-Mailboxdatabase<\/a> is your cmdlet and friend.\u00a0 Run Clean-Mailboxdatabase &lt;databasename&gt; in an Exchange Management Shell and reload your list of disconnected mailboxes.<\/p>\n<p>You saved the day!\u00a0 Or at least Exchange saved your job ;).<\/p>\n<p>So next time:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a title=\"Get-Mailbox\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb676556%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Get-Mailbox<\/a> john@contoso.com | <a title=\"Format-Table\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd315255.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Format-Table<\/a> Name, Database<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Disable-mailbox\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/aa997210%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Disable-Mailbox<\/a> john@contoso.com<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Clean-MailboxDatabase\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb124076%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Clean-MailboxDatabase<\/a> &#8220;Mailbox ServerMailbox Database Storagegroup Name&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Connect-Mailbox\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/aa997878%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Connect-Mailbox<\/a> -Database &#8220;Mailbox Database&#8221; -Identity &#8220;John Peoples&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 -User john@fabrikam.com<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;re happily clicking and typing away, and you need to relink a mailbox to another AD user.\u00a0 So you do the obvious: Go into the Exchange 2007 Management Console (or Shell) Find the mailbox in the Recipient Configuration Write down the server the mailbox is stored Disconnect the mailbox from the original AD user <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wouter.shush.com\/nl\/2010\/01\/06\/lost-your-disconnected-mailboxes-on-exchange-2007\/\">&hellip;&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[53,18],"tags":[92,95,326],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2IjO0-3R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":243,"url":"https:\/\/wouter.shush.com\/nl\/2010\/01\/20\/error-moving-mailboxes\/","url_meta":{"origin":239,"position":0},"title":"Error moving mailboxes?","author":"wooter","date":"20\/01\/10","format":false,"excerpt":"So you're cleaning out a storage group, and there are a bunch of mailboxes that you don't seem to be able to move? 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