Can’t see Deleted Mailbox in Disconnected Mailbox under Recipient Configuration

Sometimes when you delete/remove mailbox then you can’t see it immediately in Disconnected Mailbox option under Recipient Configuration.

What you need to do in that case?

Lets consider that we are deleting a mailbox named “Vijay Kumar” in this scenario.

When you right click on that and delete, it asks you for the confirmation. Click Yes.

Now deleted/removed mailbox should available in Disconnected Mailbox but you are unable to see.

You need to run below command to cleanup your database, like in Exchange 2003 we right click on Mailboxes and click on “Run Cleanup Agent” to see the Disconnected Mailboxes after removal of user object in Active Directory.

In Exchange 2007 you can do it with Clean-MailboxDatabase command.

Clean-MailboxDatabase “Database Name”

Now, when you click on Disconnected Mailbox then you are able to see the deleted user “Vijay Kumar” into it.

Now you have two options for Disconnected Mailbox, either re-connect it or permanently delete it.

If you want to permanently delete mailbox then you need to go through shell command.

In Exchange 2003 we do “Purge” on deleted mailbox, same in Exchange 2007 you need to run Remove-Mailbox command.

$Temp = Get-MailboxStatistics | Where{$_.DisplayName -eq “Vijay Kumar”}

Remove-Mailbox -Database ” DB Name” -StoreMailboxIdentity $Temp.MailboxGuid

 

This command permanently delete mailbox from the database and you can not see in Disconnected Mailbox.

 

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