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recovering a lost mailbox exchange 2007

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My coworker deleted a user in active directory, when he realized that he was not ment to he tried to recreate the user. after creating a new user we noticed that a new mailbox was created on the exchange server 2007 (server 2003 R2) for this user. The trouble is that all her emails are gone. We run a server 2003 active Directory.
In the exchange shell it appears as though i have 2 mailbox's for our user 'Jane Doe', one mailbox contains 2035 items, the other contains 2. When we OWA into her account we can only see the 2 emails.
Is there a way I can move those 2035 objects into the new jane doe account? I tried connect-mailbox but I only know how to enter the name of the mailbox, which is of course jane doe, and i get an error that it is not a unique identifier.
- Edited by AnthonySut Friday, November 4, 2011 11:18 PM
Friday, November 4, 2011 11:16 PM
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Youshould be able to connect the mailbox to the user. Remove the existin one (new one) then connect the disconnected one to the user.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232039.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123490.aspx
SukhFriday, November 4, 2011 11:46 PM -
Hi,
If the corresponding mailbox is not appeared at the 'Disconnected Mailboxes' section, Use the Clean-MailboxDatabase cmdlet to scan the Active Directory directory service for disconnected mailboxes that are not yet marked as disconnected as follows:
Clean-MailboxDatabase MyMailboxDatabase
Run the following cmdlet to recover the deleted mailbox
Connect-Mailbox -Identity "User name" -Database "My MailboxDatabase" -User "User name"
Regards from www.windowsadmin.info | www.blog.windowsadmin.info- Marked as answer by Jason LJS Friday, November 11, 2011 1:11 AM
Saturday, November 5, 2011 8:38 AM
All replies
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Youshould be able to connect the mailbox to the user. Remove the existin one (new one) then connect the disconnected one to the user.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232039.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123490.aspx
SukhFriday, November 4, 2011 11:46 PM -
Hi,
If the corresponding mailbox is not appeared at the 'Disconnected Mailboxes' section, Use the Clean-MailboxDatabase cmdlet to scan the Active Directory directory service for disconnected mailboxes that are not yet marked as disconnected as follows:
Clean-MailboxDatabase MyMailboxDatabase
Run the following cmdlet to recover the deleted mailbox
Connect-Mailbox -Identity "User name" -Database "My MailboxDatabase" -User "User name"
Regards from www.windowsadmin.info | www.blog.windowsadmin.info- Marked as answer by Jason LJS Friday, November 11, 2011 1:11 AM
Saturday, November 5, 2011 8:38 AM