10-20-2014 03:14 PM
Before we delete a mailbox (and AD account) we usually disable the mailbox from vaulting.
Is this necessary? What happens if a a mailbox and AD account are deleted without disabling the vaulting first?
Hope someone can answer this!
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10-20-2014 03:24 PM
the way you're doing it sounds fine. it isnt necessary but it doesnt do any harm. if you delete a mailbox and AD account and still have an archive around, it becomes orphaned. you can manually assign permissions to it but no new messages get archived to it unless it's reassociated with a new mailbox.
10-21-2014 03:21 PM
One thing we like to do, something to think about -
We put a retiring account into a '0 day archive' policy to archive everything in their account to current and then disable them, that way we have a full snapshot of the users mail before disabling.
10-20-2014 03:24 PM
the way you're doing it sounds fine. it isnt necessary but it doesnt do any harm. if you delete a mailbox and AD account and still have an archive around, it becomes orphaned. you can manually assign permissions to it but no new messages get archived to it unless it's reassociated with a new mailbox.
10-21-2014 03:21 PM
One thing we like to do, something to think about -
We put a retiring account into a '0 day archive' policy to archive everything in their account to current and then disable them, that way we have a full snapshot of the users mail before disabling.
10-22-2014 10:49 AM
That's what we do as well but we disable the account before doing it. Then once the mail is vaulted we disable vaulting and delete the mailbox.
I was just wondering if we needed to disable vaulting before deleting the mailbox?
11-06-2014 04:29 AM
I would otherwise it will leave errors in your provisioning task report i.e.
"Mailboxes on Exchange Server [EXCHMBX01] that have entries in the Enterprise Vault database but which are not in any provisioning group"
Ask me how I know :p