RE: How to view Diabled Mailboxes in E2K7   

Hello Cyber,

> Hi there,
> 
> After alot of testing on my system I came to know
> that
> 
> after disabling a mailbox this mailbox  will
> be displayed in "Disconnected Mailbox" in Exchange Management Console
> only if this mailbox is accessed once ( ie. user logged in to that
> mailbox atleast once). All the mailboxes which are just created and
> haven't been logged in atleast once , will not be displayed in
> "Disconnected Mailbox" in EMC after being Disabled (either via Disable
> button on EMC or via Disable-mailbox Cmdlet in PowerShell).
> 
> Worse is that if we Disable a newly created
> mailbox (which has not been logged in (accessed) atleast once ) then
> we can't Enable  that mailbox again via Connect-mailbox Cmdlet (Nor
> this mailbox is displayed in EMC as I mentioned above). This way  that
> disabled mailbox is lost permanently.
> 
> Now I have two quries about it
> 
> 1. Is there a way to programatically view all
> the disconnected mailboxes ?
> 
> 2. Is there a  way to programatically log in to
> a mailbox ( bcoz Exchange doesn't create a mailbox in mailbox store
> untill this mailbox is logged in).
> 
> best regards
> 
> "Cyber Friend" wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I have disbaled a mailbox using the PowerShell Command
>> 
>> Disable-mailbox  -identity  dev@domain1.com
>> 
>> Now I want to see all disabled mailboxes, How to do that ?
>> 
>> I can't see this disabled mailbox in Disconnected Mailboxes in EMC.
>> 
>> best regards,
>> 
>> -- Cyber Friend

Laceq;

You can see all disconnected mailboxes via powershell:

Get-MailboxStatistics -Server <server name> | where { $_.DisconnectDate -ne 
$null } | select DisplayName,DisconnectDate

Since you actually never created a mailbox, it won't show - all you did was 
mail enable an Active Directory object.

I would suggest that if it is somehow important in your organization to create 
and delete mailboxes like this, that you send the new mail enabled AD object 
a mail message, which will create the mailbox, and then delete the mailbox.

Now it will show in Disconnected Mailboxes.

Karl

date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:08:04 +0000 (UTC)   author:   Karl Mitschke

Re: How to view Diabled Mailboxes in E2K7   

... or after mailbox creation, use the following command:
Test-MapiConnectivity "John Doe"

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"Karl Mitschke"  wrote in message 
news:7063857f218678ca1b2dbc63324d@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Hello Cyber,
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> After alot of testing on my system I came to know
>> that
>>
>> after disabling a mailbox this mailbox  will
>> be displayed in "Disconnected Mailbox" in Exchange Management Console
>> only if this mailbox is accessed once ( ie. user logged in to that
>> mailbox atleast once). All the mailboxes which are just created and
>> haven't been logged in atleast once , will not be displayed in
>> "Disconnected Mailbox" in EMC after being Disabled (either via Disable
>> button on EMC or via Disable-mailbox Cmdlet in PowerShell).
>>
>> Worse is that if we Disable a newly created
>> mailbox (which has not been logged in (accessed) atleast once ) then
>> we can't Enable  that mailbox again via Connect-mailbox Cmdlet (Nor
>> this mailbox is displayed in EMC as I mentioned above). This way  that
>> disabled mailbox is lost permanently.
>>
>> Now I have two quries about it
>>
>> 1. Is there a way to programatically view all
>> the disconnected mailboxes ?
>>
>> 2. Is there a  way to programatically log in to
>> a mailbox ( bcoz Exchange doesn't create a mailbox in mailbox store
>> untill this mailbox is logged in).
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> "Cyber Friend" wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I have disbaled a mailbox using the PowerShell Command
>>>
>>> Disable-mailbox  -identity  dev@domain1.com
>>>
>>> Now I want to see all disabled mailboxes, How to do that ?
>>>
>>> I can't see this disabled mailbox in Disconnected Mailboxes in EMC.
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>>
>>> -- Cyber Friend
>
> Laceq;
>
> You can see all disconnected mailboxes via powershell:
>
> Get-MailboxStatistics -Server <server name> | where { 
> $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | select DisplayName,DisconnectDate
>
> Since you actually never created a mailbox, it won't show - all you did 
> was mail enable an Active Directory object.
>
> I would suggest that if it is somehow important in your organization to 
> create and delete mailboxes like this, that you send the new mail enabled 
> AD object a mail message, which will create the mailbox, and then delete 
> the mailbox.
>
> Now it will show in Disconnected Mailboxes.
>
> Karl
>
>

date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 07:10:46 -0800   author:   Bharat Suneja [MVP]