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Active Directory, 3rd Edition
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Active Directory, 3rd Edition

by Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
January 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
832 pages
27h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Reconnecting a Disconnected Mailbox

After a mailbox has been disconnected, and prior to it being purged or exceeding its retention period, it can be reconnected to a user object that doesn't currently have a mailbox associated with it. The following code shows how to reconnect a mailbox:

    ' This code reconnects a mailbox to a user.
    Option Explicit
    Dim strComputer, strUser, strMailbox, objWMI, objDiscMbx, objMbx
    strComputer = "<Exchange Server>" ' e.g. ExchServer2
    ' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
    strUser = "<Userid>"              ' e.g. DrAmy
    strMailbox = "<Mailbox Alias>"    ' e.g. DrAmy
    ' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------

    Set objWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & _
                           "\root\MicrosoftExchangeV2")
    Set objDiscMbx = objWMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Exchange_Mailbox WHERE " _
                               & "MailboxDisplayName='" & strMailbox & "'",,48)
    For Each objMbx In objDiscMbx
      objMbx.Reconnect strUser
    Next
    WScript.Echo "Successfully reconnected mailbox."

Tip

Reconnecting a mailbox requires Exchange Service Administrator permissions, plus additional permissions on user objects. See the section "Exchange Delegation."

This script is like the purge mailbox script and doesn't need CDOEXM; it also does what it needs to do through Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). This script executes a query against the Exchange server using the WMI Exchange_Mailbox class (which is available in Exchange 2003) and asks for all mailboxes with the specified name. It then loops through the returned mailboxes and executes the ...

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