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Orphaned mailboxes in exchange 2003

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by eddie

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There are former user?s email mailboxes in the primary Exchange 2003 information store that need to be exported to a PST file and then deleted, but the user?s account has been totally removed from Active Directory. How do you access those orphaned mailboxes and export them to a PST file?

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by bart777

without a mailbox attached to it.
Then go into the exchange server and reconnect the mailbox to this new account. Once that is done you can PST the mail out.

To do a further boxes you can remove the exchange attributes from this same account and repeat the process. You may need to give the domain time to replicate the changes but that is simple enough to force as well.

I've done this many times in the past. It's the easiest solution.

Once all of the mail has been PST'd you can purge the old mailboxes from you system.

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