Deleting mailbox without removing user object? Exchange 2010

In Exchange 2010, How can I delete a mailbox but keep the User Object since this user still access the network??

Caution: Horror story ahead:
Yeah, well, the earlier bits of Exchange 2010 don't let you remove Exchange without first removing the mailbox from the mailbox database... this is according to MSFT documentation. So I highlighted all the users at a customer's 130 user site and clicked
remove. S.O.A.B.!!!! Only to find out one of the other senior techs did the same thing at a 10 user site but didn't tell anybody.
The worst thing here is that there were no backups of AD. We were able to restore the deleted user accounts via the aduser tool from sysinternals, but it only got the sam name and the SID, no group memberships, no passwords, not even first name, lastname
or UPN. Since AD comes with the recycle bin disabled (dumb because you don't know you have to enable it until you need it.) and the new Windows Server Backup doesn't let you take system state backups without lots of hassle dedicating drives and backup
locations, we found ourselves royally um... humped. Still dealing with the after math after restoring the objects for over 6 hours.
Thanks for the egg on my face MSFT!

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Created mailbox for new user in Exchange 2010, user not visible in AD.

Hi everyone!
This morning I created a mailbox for a new user on my Exchange 2010 box.
Everything works fantastically but I am unable to view the new user in AD except by searching. If I run a search the results say the user exists in my Users container, and I can view the properties of the user account from the search results, but I
am unable to actually see the user profile object in the Users container.
I notice in EMC that the mailbox has a user icon on the mailbox icon instead of the regular standard icon - I'm not sure what this implies.
Can anyone offer some advice as to why this happens and how to resolve it?
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Hi,
AD objects store in the Domain partition Database.
Its replication Scope is :Domain Wide
Its replication model is: Multi Master
There are two possible cause.
1. AD replication latency if you have several DCs.
You could wait for AD replication or force replication, Click
refresh on ADUC.
2. You create the new user
in other OU, not Users.
You could run this command to get
the user’s DistingushedName attribution.
Get-mailbox –identity
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Migrating user from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 succeeds but OWA redirects to 2010

Hello everyone,
I am migrating users from exchange 2010 to 2013, Users migration works perfectly and completes without any issue but after the user migration finishes I try to login to OWA but user goes to OWA exchange 2010 not 2013 as if the mailbox has not been migrated.
I have checked the HomeMDB attribute and I can see the new database on 2013 is located there. how to solve this? I have retransfered the user back to 2010 and 2013 but it didn't work.
I would appreciate your help.
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Hi Amit
After 30 mins approximately we checked the inboxes that have been migrted (2) and we found out they are working.
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Outlook 2003 Free/Busy only shows 2 months for users on Exchange 2010

Hi,
We are moving to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003 and have noticed that users who have been created on or migrated to Exchange 2010 who also use Outlook 2003 can only see 2 months worth of free busy information.
After doing some testing this is only an issue if the user who is looking at the free busy is located on Exchange 2010 and they are using Outlook 2003. It doesn't matter if the mailboxes they are looking at are on Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2010.
If the user uses Outlook 2007 they see free/busy past 2 months.
We configure Outlook to publish 12 months of free/busy.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Matt

Hi Matt,
According to your description, the issue only happens in Outlook 2003 but not in other Outlook versions. Please check whether there is the Auto Accept Agent installed in your Exchange server. This issue occurs when you register the Auto Accept Agent to process
meeting requests for the affected mailbox.
Here is a KB related to this issue. Please follow it to configure the period for which you want to publish Free/Busy information in a registry entry on the Microsoft Exchange Server on which you have installed the Auto Accept Agent:
The published Free/Busy information for a mailbox is displayed for the default period of two months after you have configured a longer period in Outlook
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917687
The free/busy publish range reverts back to the default setting when you direct book a resource in Outlook 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905817
Additionally, I recommend you upgrade your Outlook 2003 clients to Outlook 2010/2013 for better working. Because Microsoft ended support for Office 2003 on April 8, 2014.
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How to introduce exchange 2013 mailbox server in an existing Exchange 2010 Environment

Hi All,
we are planning to install exchange 2013 mailbox server in an Exchange 2010 environment. we have 3 MB servers, 1 CAS 1 HUB which is installed with Exchange 2010 SP3 Enterprise Edition. how to install new exchange server 2013 and i have to add the 2013
servers in to existing DAG and migrate all mailboxes in to 2013 server. Please advise me from the scratch. also will it be create any impact in my existing setup.
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I had a second exchange 2010 server with a DAG setup between the primary production exchange 2010 server and the secondary one which was at our DR site. I did a DR test and ended up having to break the DAG and mount the DB manually for the DR test. AS a
result this second exchange server has been switched off and I have removed the DAG from the production side and all is ok with that. I am planning to move to a netapp exchange replication solution instead of dag for DR. As the DAG does not work well as a
DR solution.
The only problem that remains is that I still have the old server listed under servers and there is a public folder database that is still listed from the second server. Is there a way to remove this inasscible server from exchange without doing it through
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Your first option is to uninstall normally as commented by Ed.
If no way you can uninstall (in a documented way), then you can go with the final option of cleaning up from active directory. But take a backup of the active directory system state before doing this to be safe.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/1c638bdd-67ba-44dd-996d-882be5fe5b09/remove-failed-exchange-2010-servers-that-are-no-longer-accessible?forum=exchange2010
http://windowsitpro.com/exchange-server/how-uninstall-stubborn-exchange-server
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Find membership and associated rights of particular user in exchange 2010 / 2013 ?

Assuming we have two users -say U1 and U2 and we need to map U1's access to U2 for a particular exchange 2010 conference room mailbox . is there a cmdlet or a way out to find membership and associated rights of 'U1' in exchange so that we may grant
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Aditya Mediratta

Associated rights can be granted at two levels, one on mailbox which can be found using below cmdlet...
Get-MailboxPermission RoomName| Where {$_.user -notlike "NT AUTHORITY\SELF" -and $_.IsInherited -eq $false -and $_.user -like "*U1*"} | FL Identity,User,@{Name='Access Rights';Expression={[String]::join(`, `,$_.AccessRights)}}
Second at individual folder level inside the mailbox so for Room mailbox calendar is the only thing you would need to check... You can check via Powershell but you need to open Shell with RunAs that user and while AD account for the Room is disabled you
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When does a work cycle on a mailbox server actually start in Exchange 2010/2013?

So the question came up in work today as to when a work cycle on a mailbox server (e.g. ManagedFolderWorkCycle) actually starts. For example if it's set for 7 days, what 7 days does it choose? Is the first day the day the server was last
restarted? Or is it the day the MSExchangeMailboxAssistants service was restarted? Is there some set day and hour considered the start? Or something else i'm not thinking of? I've checked various technet
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Hi Iczersigma,
According to your description, it seems ManagedFolderAssistantSchedule
that Ed mentioned is the great method to specify the date of service restarting. And I notice that this parameter also used in both Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013, not only for 2010 RTM.
Detailed information about this parameter as below:
The ManagedFolderAssistantSchedule parameter specifies the intervals each week during which the Managed Folder Assistant applies messaging records management (MRM) settings to managed folders. The format is StartDay.Time-EndDay.Time. You can use the following values for the start and end days:
•Full name of the day
•Abbreviated name of the day
•Integer from 0 through 6, where 0 = Sunday
The start time and end time must be at least 15 minutes apart. Minutes are rounded down to 0, 15, 30, or 45. If you specify more than one interval, there must be at least 15 minutes between each interval.
The following are examples:
•"Sun.11:30 PM-Mon.1:30 AM"
•6.22:00-6.22:15 (The assistant will run from Saturday at 10:00 PM until Saturday at 10:15 PM.)
•"Monday.4:30 AM-Monday.5:30 AM","Wednesday.4:30 AM-Wednesday.5:30 AM" (The assistant will run on Monday and Wednesday mornings from 4:30 until 5:30.)
•"Sun.1:15 AM-Monday.23:00"
If the managed folder assistant doesn't finish processing the mailboxes on the server during the time that you've scheduled, it automatically resumes processing where it left off the next time it runs.
For your reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998651(v=exchg.150).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998651(v=exchg.141).aspx
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TS3276 There are two User accounts on my iMac. The two Users have seperate email accounts. Both email Mailboxes show up in each Account. If I Delete Mailbox from in User account, does it delete the Mailbox from the other User account at the same time?

There are 2 Users on my iMac. Each User has their own email account. Both account Mailboxes show up in each User's account. If I delete a Mailbox in one account, does it delete the same Mailbox in the other Account?

If you click the - sign in Mail preferences, it will delete that mail account. If you just delete the Mailbox, that will just delete the Mailbox.
Each user can put their own email account information in Mail when logged into their User Account.
If you don't want the other user's mail account to show up in your mail application, then make sure the other user's messages are available to them when they are logged into their account and delete the other user account from Mail in your User Account. The other user can do the same when logged into their user account. Any messages stored in one locally will have to be transfered to the other's user account if it's not saved in their user login.
In addition, instead of deleting the account at first, highlight the account and open the Advanced Tab and disable the account. That email account will dissappear from Mail. Once you decide that you don't want the account, you can delete it. If you need to get back to it to transfer messages, just re enable it.

Delete Single Email from sender to All Users in Exchange 2010

Dear All,
I have received one virus from 163.com. i want to delete all mails coming from 163.com to all users mailbox. the subject and attachment words are common so we can not delete it by attachment name or subject name.
pls help me to delete by domain.
Sunil
SUNIL PATEL SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Before I do a search and remove like this, I like to run a message track first, to see how widespread the issue is. If it's only a few users who received the message, I would just run search-mailbox against their identity and remove the email. Here's an
example of the message track I would run:
Get-TransportServer | Invoke-Command {Get-MessageTrackingLog -Sender "[email protected]" -MessageSubject "Important information about your account" -Start "09/08/2014 00:01:00 AM" -End "09/11/2014 10:00:00 AM" | Select
Sender,{$_.Recipients},{$_.RecipientStatus},MessageSubject,TimeStamp, EventId, Source, SourceContext,MessageId,InternalMessageId,ClientIP,ClientHostName,ServerIP,ServerHostName,ConnectorId,TotalBytes,RecipientCount,RelatedRecipientAddress,Reference,ReturnPath,MessageInfo
| Export-Csv E:\temp\MessageTrackingLog-ShadyBiz.csv -NoTypeInformation}
Then, if it's a few users, I get their identity info from the spreadsheet and run this on each:
Search-Mailbox -Identity michaeld -SearchQuery subject:"Important information about your account", Sent:'09/08/2014..09/11/2014', from:'[email protected]' -TargetMailbox "ex2010security"
-TargetFolder "ShadyBiz" -Loglevel Full -DeleteContent -Force -Confirm:$false
This would put the found messages into a folder called ShadyBiz in a mailbox I designate, then delete the content from the user's mailbox (you could then use the info in the folder for reporting purposes
and delete it once you are done).
If you find you have to run this against all the mailboxes in your company, you might want to try this approach:
$mbs=Get-Mailbox –ResultSize Unlimited | Where {($_.PrimarySMTPAddress –like ‘*yourcompany.com*’) –and ($_.RecipientTypeDetails –eq ‘UserMailbox’)}
ForEach ($mb in $mbs) {Search-Mailbox -Identity $mb.identity -SearchQuery subject:"Important information about your account", Sent:'09/08/2014..09/11/2014', from:'[email protected]' -TargetMailbox
"ex2010security" -TargetFolder "ShadyBiz" -Loglevel Full -DeleteContent -Force -Confirm:$false}

How do you delete specific message from users in Exchange 2013 DAG database?

Our network has been inundated with spam from INTUIT.COM with the SUBJECT: PAYMENT OVERDUE and contains a link to download a form from a Dropbox. Obviously, very suspicious and clearly spam. We're using Postini as our Edge Transport/ Spam filter but messages
are still getting in. I've enable anti-spam on all my mailbox servers, set the SCL values but that hasn't worked.
I understand that Exchange Edge Transport role has the more aggressive spam fighting features but Microsoft also recommends an online spam filter.
Needless to say, we've taken steps to quarantine those messages based on subject and sender in Postini but now would like to delete those messages from the users in went to. My users are two different DAG mailbox databases. I found this article http://www.techieshelp.com/delete-mail-from-multiple-mailboxes/ but
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Check this out
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459253%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx and specifically look at the section titled "Search messages and log the search results"
Or you can use this
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996371%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx with the WHATIF parameter
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I'm trying to move mailboxes from 2010 to 2013, but I'm experiencing a lot of issues.
My move batches keep hanging (stalled) for minutes and hours on end, and I can't seem to keep them going consistently.
I have two DAG's, one for Archive boxes, and one for Primary mailboxes. Each DAG has three members with DB copies of each DB. The npdes and the clusters themselves are up and healthy. However, at random some of the DB's Content Index state will go to Failed
or SuspendedandFailed. At which point I force a catalog refresh and DB index update, and it goes to healthy.
I've created the "ContentSubmitters" AD group (and assigned it permissions), reset the Search and Host controller services on each server, and restarted the Replication service. I also deleted and recreated the Index for each DB prior to restarting
services. No dice. I've also already moved the system mailboxes over to the 2013 databases.
I'm also getting some "Transient" errors in the user move log, things like this:
Transient error ResourceUnhealthyException has occurred. The system will retry"
5/4/2014 8:43:55 AM [exmb1] The job encountered too many transient failures (60) and is quitting.
5/4/2014 8:43:55 AM [exmb1] Fatal error ResourceUnhealthyException has occurred.
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I would suggest you to run the below command for this "My move batches keep hanging (stalled) for minutes and hours on end" issue and see the result
Get-MoveRequest -Identity "Mailbox Name" | Get-MoveRequestStatistics -IncludeReport | FL Report
Just check if the MRS health is fine by running the below command
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When I run the Test command against either of my CAS servers, I get: " 'EXCH1' does not have the right Exchange Server version or role required to support this operation."
Run i run that command against any of the mailbox servers, it completes and generates the XML file, but I'm not sure what I need to be looking for within that file.
The first command spits out a ton of data, here's a little excerpt:
5/5/2014 8:59:28 AM [exmb1] Transient error ResourceUnhealthyException has occurred. The system will retry
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(15.0.847.31 caps:03FF) is examining the request.
5/5/2014 9:00:07 AM [exmb1] Connected to target mailbox 'Primary (072dc240-bd79-495c-b7f2-c571e8f910f2)',
database 'newmbi', Mailbox server 'Exmb1.contoso.com' Version 15.0 (Build 847.0).
5/5/2014 9:00:07 AM [exmb1] Connected to target mailbox 'Archive (812ee554-4a1e-4feb-b591-a435fcbdee16)',
database 'newarci', Mailbox server 'EXARC2.contoso.com' Version 15.0 (Build 847.0), proxy server
'EXARC2.contoso.com' 15.0.847.31 caps:1FFFCB07FFFF.
5/5/2014 9:00:07 AM [exmb1] Connected to source mailbox 'Primary (072dc240-bd79-495c-b7f2-c571e8f910f2)',
database 'exmbi', Mailbox server 'Chsexmb2.contoso.com' Version 14.3 (Build 181.0).
5/5/2014 9:00:08 AM [exmb1] Connected to source mailbox 'Archive (812ee554-4a1e-4feb-b591-a435fcbdee16)',
database 'Exarci', Mailbox server 'CHSEXARC1.contoso.com' Version 14.3 (Build 181.0)
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Script to delete a lot of user from exchange

Hi every one I have a list of mailbox in excel file
Please I want to know how I can delete a list of mailbox with powershell
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Hello,
If you are using text file as input file, there is no need place ; or , after every user.
If you using text file. Use below command:
Get-Content C:\User.txt | foreach{ Remove-mailbox
-Identity $_
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Outlook for Mac mailbox is almost full with exchange 2010

I have a Mac user who's mailbox is almost full. On a PC we just archive email and it goes into a .pst. What do I do with this Mac?
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You can disable this in the registry. This is not a Cisco documented or recommended option. I have done it for customers who were really adament about the notifications.
Here are the steps to do on your Unity server. Again I want to stress I'm not sure if this is Cisco supported but it's a simple change that requires no reboot.
1. Backup your windows registry
2. Open regedit
3. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Active Voice\MalEx\1.0
4. Open the REG_DWORD DisableStatusCheck
5. Change the value from 0 to 1
This should take effect right away. This is a universal system all off for the Unity server only. Exchange is not effected.
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Really sorry for providing the wrong value on MaxRecipientEnvelopeLimit in my previous post.
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Reference Link : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124151%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx
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