Tip: Use Exchange Management Shell to Recover Deleted Mailboxes
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When you delete a mailbox from a user account, the mailbox is retained as a disconnected mailbox according to the mailbox retention setting. You can reconnect the mailbox to the original user account or another user account if necessary.
When you delete a user account and the related mailbox, the mailbox is retained as a disconnected mailbox according to the mailbox retention setting. In this case, you can connect the mailbox to an existing user account if necessary.
You can use the Connect-Mailbox cmdlet, as shown here, to recover the mailbox by connecting it to a user account.
Syntax:
Connect-Mailbox -Identity OrigMailboxIdentity
-Database DatabaseIdentity -User NewUserIdentity
[-ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy PolicyId] [-Alias Alias]
[-DomainController DCName] [-ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy PolicyId]
[-ManagedFolderMailboxPolicyAllowed <$true | $false>]
[-Archive <$true | $false>] [-Equipment <$true | $false>]
[-Room <$true | $false>] [-Shared <$true | $false>]
[-ValidateOnly <$true | $false>]
[-LinkedCredential Credential] [-LinkedDomainController DCName]
[-LinkedMasterAccount UserId]
Usage:
Connect-Mailbox -Identity "Per Reitzel"
-Database "Accounting Mail" -User "CPANDL\perr" -Alias "perr"
Connect-Mailbox -Identity "Per Reitzel"
-Database "Accounting Mail" -LinkedDomainController CorpServer72
-LinkedMasterAccount "CPANDL\perr"
From the Microsoft Press book Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant by William R. Stanek.
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