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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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5.3. Removing a Mailbox for an Existing User

Problem

You want to remove the mailbox from an account while leaving the account intact.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Log on to any machine in your domain that has the Exchange management tools installed.

  2. Open the ADUC snap-in (Users and Computers.msc).

  3. Locate the account whose mailbox you want to delete.

  4. Right-click the target account and choose the Exchange Tasks command.

  5. The Exchange Task Wizard will appear. (You may see a welcome page first; if so, click Next to dismiss it.)

  6. From the Available Tasks window, choose Delete Mailbox and click Next.

  7. The Delete Mailbox page appears, along with a warning that deleting the mailbox will delete the messages it contains. Click Next if you really want it deleted.

  8. The Task in Progress window will briefly appear, then you'll see a completion page that indicates whether the mailbox creation succeeded or not. Click Finish.

Using a command-line interface

Use exchmbx with the -clear switch to remove the mailbox from the specified user:

> exchmbx -b <userDN> -clear

Using VBScript

' This code removes the mailbox associated with the specified
' account. Once it's gone, it can still be retrieved, until the
' deleted mailbox retention period expires
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
 strDCName = "<ServerName>"    ' e.g., CONT-EXBE01
 strUserName = "/cn=<User>, CN=Users, <ForestRootDN>" ' ------ END CONFIGURATION --------- ' find the target user strQuery = "LDAP://" & strDCName & strUserName Set theUser = GetObject(strQuery) ...
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