Is a removed mailbox gone forever

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  1. It shuld be there for you to reocover, mbx may have not been marked just yet, you may have to run the clean-mailboxdatabase - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124076(EXCHG.80).aspx
  2. Also, if you checlked  Do not permanently delete mailboxes and items until the store has been backed up it may have been purged
  3. Or wait.  Then you can reconnect if you wish.

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  • Marked as answer by Gavin-Zhang Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:46 AM

  Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:16 AM
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  On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 07:50:13 +0000, Email Tech wrote:

   

  >In my Excahnge environment I right clicked a mailbox and chose "remove". The "Deleted Mailbox Retrntion" is set for 30 days. is this mailbox gone or should it be available for recovey for 30 days.

   

  If you've made no changes to the "Keep deleted mailboxes for (days)"

  value on the mailbox database then the mailbox will remain in the

  database for 30 days. You shold be able to reconnect the mailbox to

  the original AD user or to another AD user that isn't mailbox-enabled.

   

  >I checked the "Disconnected Mailboxes" the following day and it was not there.

   

  Try running "Clean-MailboxDatabase" on all your mailbox databases and

  then check again after a while. The disconnected mailbox will only

  appear in the "Disconnected Mailboxes" view after the information stor

  discovers that the "full directory name" stored in the mailbox no

  longer has a match to any "legacyExchangeDN" property value in the AD.

  If your normal background maintenance tasks aren't running then the

  mailbox may not have been checked for a "connection" with an AD user.

   

  OTOH, someone else may have permanently removed the mailbox -- or your

  retention period isn't what you think it is (maybe it's zero, not

  thirty, days?) and the mailbox was removed by the background

  maintenance tasks.

   

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  Rich Matheisen

  MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

   

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  • Marked as answer by Gavin-Zhang Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:47 AM

  Sunday, August 7, 2011 3:28 PM
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  Hi,

  Deleting a mailbox does not mean that it is permanently removed from the Exchange Information store database. Actually when you delete a mailbox in Microsoft Exchange server, it is disconnected  for a retention period. During this period, you can easily reconnect it.
  
  Read more about how to recover deleted mailbox when it is in retention period: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274343
  
  Note: At the end of the retention period, the user's mailboxes are permanently removed from the Exchange server database and only a backup copy or a third party Exchange recovery tool can help you to recover these mailboxes.

  Regards,

  
  

  • Marked as answer by Gavin-Zhang Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:47 AM

  Tuesday, August 9, 2011 5:57 PM