Force Mailbox deletion in Exchange 2016
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I remember in 2003-10 exchange there used to be a place where you could "purge" out mailboxes that you didn't need before the retention policy was up. With Exchange 2016 that seems to be gone or at least I cannot find it in the ECP.
Am I wrong?
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Exchange/recipients/disconnected-mailboxes/permanently-delete-mailboxes
It is
Remove-Mailbox -Identity <Identity> -Permanent $true
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So the answer is yes it is gone through the ECP and is now in Exchange PowerDOS
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@wls-itguy said in Force Mailbox deletion in Exchange 2016:
So the answer is yes it is gone through the ECP and is now in Exchange PowerDOS
Well, if you Disable a mailbox it is not shown as disabled until 24 to 48 hours in the ECp. Also deleting the mailbox doesn’t translate on space save as the space is not changed on the DB.
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@dbeato said in Force Mailbox deletion in Exchange 2016:
@wls-itguy said in Force Mailbox deletion in Exchange 2016:
So the answer is yes it is gone through the ECP and is now in Exchange PowerDOS
Well, if you Disable a mailbox it is not shown as disabled until 24 to 48 hours in the ECp. Also deleting the mailbox doesn’t translate on space save as the space is not changed on the DB.
Not worried about space. We created a shared mailbox for a calendar and then they wanted to change the name of it so instead of creating a new mailbox I changed the name and alias and then found that not to be working right so I tried to create the right name and boogered it all up.
All good now though.
