Exchange Database

[r***@wphome.com]

Due to a person leaving their job, I have inherited, with no training,
admin duties to our Exchange server and I am having to learn as I go.
I have several hundred disabled user accounts in Active Directory with
Outlook accounts. I want to begin deleting these accounts. What
impact should I expect to see on the Exchange server? What is the
best practice for this task? What happens to the deleted accounts
messages? Any explanation is appreciated and the simpler and more
detailed the better.

Thanks

[Mark Arnold [MVP]]

Post by r***@wphome.com
Due to a person leaving their job, I have inherited, with no training,
admin duties to our Exchange server and I am having to learn as I go.
I have several hundred disabled user accounts in Active Directory with
Outlook accounts. I want to begin deleting these accounts. What
impact should I expect to see on the Exchange server? What is the
best practice for this task? What happens to the deleted accounts
messages? Any explanation is appreciated and the simpler and more
detailed the better.
Thanks

If you know that the users have definetely left then go to the
Exchange server, run up AD Users and Computers and delete the
accounts.
If you wanted to save the mailboxes to PST you could reset their
passwords, log on as them, set up their mail and export to PST file.
There is a utility called "exmerge" but if you're so new to Exchange I
probably wouldn't suggest it.

[John Fullbright]

Don't be too hasty; Investigate first. Are the disabled accounts uers that
left the company, resource mailboxes, or acoounts with an associated
external user? If they are indeed departed users, what is the company
policy on disiposition of the mail? Are there any retention requirements?
Do your homework and you'll potentially save yourself a lot of grief.

Post by r***@wphome.com
Due to a person leaving their job, I have inherited, with no training,
admin duties to our Exchange server and I am having to learn as I go.
I have several hundred disabled user accounts in Active Directory with
Outlook accounts. I want to begin deleting these accounts. What
impact should I expect to see on the Exchange server? What is the
best practice for this task? What happens to the deleted accounts
messages? Any explanation is appreciated and the simpler and more
detailed the better.
Thanks