Purging disconnected mailboxes in Exchange 2003 was quick and easy.<\/p>\n
With Exchange 2007 you need to use the Exchange Management Shell to purge\/delete the disconnected mailboxes. Below are some examples on how to delete disconnected mailboxes in Exchange 2007. Make sure that you need to delete the disconnected mailboxes as it’s easier to reconnect a disconnected mailbox if a user account and mailbox got deleted by accident.<\/p>\n
Delete a specific disconnected mailbox:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Get-MailboxDatabase (this will show you\u00a0 the database names) Delete all disconnected mailboxes from a specific database:<\/strong><\/p>\n First create a variable $users as per point 1<\/p>\n 1. $users = Get-MailboxStatistics | where-object { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | Select DisplayName,MailboxGuid All the disconnected mailboxes in the specific database will now be deleted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Purging disconnected mailboxes in Exchange 2003 was quick and easy. With Exchange 2007 you need to use the Exchange Management Shell to purge\/delete the disconnected mailboxes. Below are some examples on how to delete disconnected mailboxes in Exchange 2007. Make sure that you need to delete the disconnected mailboxes as it’s easier to reconnect a disconnected mailbox if a user account and mailbox got deleted by accident. Delete a specific disconnected mailbox: 1. Get-MailboxDatabase (this will show you\u00a0 the database names) 2. Get-MailboxStatistics | where-object { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | Select DisplayName,MailboxGuid (view the user’s GUID here) 3.\u00a0 Remove-Mailbox -Database\u00a0“Type Your Database Name Here“\u00a0-StoreMailboxIdentity\u00a0Type the Users Mailbox GUID Here\u00a0-confirm:$false Delete all disconnected mailboxes from a specific database: First create a variable $users as per point 1 1. $users = Get-MailboxStatistics | where-object { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | Select DisplayName,MailboxGuid 2. $users | ForEach { Remove-Mailbox -Database “Type Your Database Name Here” -StoreMailboxIdentity $_.MailboxGuid -confirm:$false } All the disconnected mailboxes in the specific database will now be deleted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,205,7],"tags":[211,212],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exchange-2007","category-exchange-management-shell","category-microsoft-exchange","tag-deleting-disconnected-mailboxes-in-exchange-2007","tag-purge-disconnected-mailboxes-in-exchange-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Get-MailboxStatistics | where-object { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | Select DisplayName,MailboxGuid (view the user’s GUID here)
\n3.\u00a0 Remove-Mailbox -Database\u00a0“<\/span>Type Your Database Name Here“<\/span><\/span>\u00a0-StoreMailboxIdentity\u00a0Type the Users Mailbox GUID Here<\/span>\u00a0-confirm:$false<\/p>\n
\n2. $users | ForEach { Remove-Mailbox -Database “Type Your Database Name Here<\/span>” -StoreMailboxIdentity $_.MailboxGuid -confirm:$false }<\/p>\n