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Disabling an Exchange account

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by jgoldberg01

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We are running Exchange 2003 and Active Directory under Windows 2003 Terminal Server. Is there some way to disable an email account without deleting it, and with the intention of re-enabling it in the future?

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by faradhi

I believe that when you disable the user account, the exchange account is disabled as well.

by gralfus

We disable the user in Active Directory, and in the Exchange Advanced tab hide the user from mailing lists. (This is because we keep the accounts around for another month incase we need to retrieve something, or the user comes back.)

by old guy

It does disable the account but if you don't want it to show up in the address books you have to click to Hide from Address book. I'm at home and don't remember which tab it's on in the user's Property page. You should be able to find it though.

As a rule of thumb when a user leaves our organization I disable their account and will go back about 2-3 months later to delete it permanently. This allows in case that person comes back to work or if administration needs to check their mailbox for whatever they check it for.

by jgoldberg01

Thanks for your help, everyone. Just so we're all on the same page: If I disable the AD account and take the mailbox out of view on the address list, that means that anyone sending an email to that address will have it bounce back and that the user himself won't be able to send any messages from that address, correct?

by cbalness

and "hiding" it also prevents people from going.... whatever happened to Old Joe ?? I'd better look him up in the Global Address Book and drop him a line....

hmmm... can't seem to find him... ergo, no mail sent.

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