Comments on: Delete disconnected mailbox in Exchange 2007

By: DoranceMC

DoranceMC — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:07:08 +0000

Excelent! Thanks!

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:35:51 +0000

Hi Michelle,

when the user is still active, you could try to connect the mailbox to the user who it belongs to.
You can do this with the Exchange Management Console, or with the Management Shell:
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Connect-Mailbox -Identity “John Brown” -Database “Mailbox Database” -User “John Brown”
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After you connect the mailbox to the user, you can remove the Exchange attributes, again with the Management Console or the Management Shell.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:09:20 +0000

Thank you. I have a question thou. There are still some mailboxes that will not delete. We had some issues with exchange and moved these mailboxes to another database and now the old mailbox shows as disconnected but will not delete since that user name is still active. So my question is “How do you remove those mailboxes?”.

Thank you

By: carla

carla — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:56:22 +0000

Thank you for the command !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:31:31 +0000

This command worked exactly as written. Thank you.

By: Saswata Basu

Saswata Basu — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:17:30 +0000

Thanks a lot for the shell command. It helped to delete a user mailbox in Disconnected mailbox in my lab Exchange 2007 server. Note- When running this command ensure the “server\database” is replaced by the Exchange server name and the Mailbox database name. For ex- “exch1\First Storage Group\Mailbox database”