"Disconnected Mailbox" Exchange 2007

[hardanst]

Hi All,

 

I have recently noticed that when I go on Disconnected Mailbox on our EMC it says "There are no items to show in this view". I have tried

• Connecting to Server
  
• Un-mounting then mounting the Disconnected Mailbox database in the Database Recovery Management tool
  
• Running the clean-mailbox database "Database". this comes up with the message "The mailbox database you specified is a recovery mailbox database, you cannot apply this task to it."
  

I've been googling this for a day and have got no where. Has anyone ran into this problem before and if so please tell me you found a way to resolve it.

 

Cheers

 

Dan

[Abaddon]

I'm assuming that you know for a fact that you actually HAVE some disconnected mailboxes?

[hardanst]

Thanks for your response. Yes we definitely have some disconnected mailboxes

[Abaddon]

Ok - how were they disconnected originally? Accounts removed from AD? There is a time limit, after which a disconnected mailbox will be removed - have you perhaps gone past this?

[hardanst]

We disable the email account then delete the AD account. We do on occasions have to disable student email accounts due to mis-use and I know the last one wasn't more than 30days ago.

[mattx]

We disable the email account then delete the AD account. We do on occasions have to disable student email accounts due to mis-use and I know the last one wasn't more than 30days ago.

 

You probably have a valid reason but why not just remove the E-mail account which in turn will remove the AD object......

[hardanst]

We most the time don't want to remove the AD object we just want to disconnect the email account for a short period.

[Abaddon]

Hmm.. ok. I'll have a dig around, but I suspect without being able to reproduce the problem I won't get too far..

[sukh]

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