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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Exchange 2010–Deleted mailboxes are not able to connect

Its been found that there is a situation when an Exchange Administrator deletes mailboxes from Exchange 2010 and later when try connect from EMC its not able find the AD user to get it connected.

In this scenario please follow below steps for connecting it. In this scenario I was deleting a mailbox going by the name ‘Bad User’.

  1. Login to server and open ADSIEDIT.
  2. Locate the user from ADSIEDIT tool and go to properties of user.
  3. Select the attribute ‘msExchRecipientTypeDetails’ and click on edit.
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  4. Click on ‘Clear’ then on OK
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  5. Make sure that the value changed to <not set> and click on OK
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  6. Go to EMC and locate the deleted user.
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  7. Right click and select connect
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  8. Click on Next
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  9. Click on Brows.. now you will be finding the user Smile
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  10. Fill ‘Alias’ and click on Next
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  11. Click on Connect
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  12. Click on Finish
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3 comments:

  1. Hi,

    I have found the solution which can help to connect Deleted mailboxes with Exchange 2010, Try it: http://blogs.technet.com/b/ferris/archive/2010/01/10/deleted-mailbox-not-appearing-in-disconnected-mailbox-gui-read-on.aspx

    I hope it is very helpful for Exchange users.

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    2. Thanks Marshal for sharing the link, as per my experience if you are deleting Exchange 2010 mailbox by using Exchange 2003 tools then the solution provided in your link will not help. In this case you have to use this article.

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