Re: Orphan mailbox by Tim
Tim
Mon Sep 26 12:52:04 CDT 2005
Thanks, what I found was there was a user object with a name something like
"mailsystem- long sid key...." that matched the name of the orphaned mailbox
once I deleted it out of the users I was able to run the clean up agent and
delete the mailbox.
thanks for the input.
Tim
"Wendel Hamilton" <WendelHamilton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:1983DB80-0235-46A4-B366-04764016764F@microsoft.com...
> Tim,
> Try the following.
> Backup the users mail box just in case.
> Delete the user again run the clean up agent and you should now see 2
> orphaned mailboxes. Delete the old one re-create the user and reconnect
the
> mailbox.
>
> "Tim" wrote:
>
> > Hi all, I deleted a user by mistake and had to recreate the user, when I
> > went to reconnect them to the mail box in exchange I didn't see it so I
just
> > restored it from a backup. Now I see that it was there and I just missed
it.
> > So now how do I delete the old mailbox, I run the cleanup agent and it
> > doesn't show up with a red x I can't see what could be wrong ( I not
real
> > strong at Exchange) can some one point me in the right direction?
> >
> > thanks
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >