Most Exchange admins remember the day they learned the difference between disabling a mailbox, and removing a mailbox. The vast majority learn that lesson the hard way. I tend to do my administration in PowerShell, so if I were to make the mistake of trying to remove a mailbox by running Remove-Mailbox , I get a warning that describes what is about to happen.
I almost never do it in the Exchange Admin Center, so when I tried it this week I was surprised to find two things. First, the visible option is the destructive one, deleting the mailbox and AD user object. The less destructive option, of merely removing the mail attributes from the user and marking the mailbox for deletion, is hidden under a menu. Yes, that is a warning asking if you really want to continue.
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Group Management Contact Management. I just want to add some important information which I think not included. Step 5. You definitely need to add a SRV record to the local domain in order to solve the certificate issue and autodiscover issues. Following solutions worked for me all three occasions: 1. Click on it, and remove the existing A records for autodiscover.
Then, right-click the Zone name and select Other New Records. Enter the following settings: Domain: mydomain. Once the SRV record is added to the internal DNS zone, Outlook and other autodiscover clients that attempt to configure themselves with a domain. Before deleting the public folder database, assign a new default public folder database to the mailbox database s.
RemovePublicFolderDataba se. To Alex, thanks for the guide. To David de la Nougerede — I followed this process very carefully. I too got the same error and not that familiar with MS Exchange issues.
No one has responded to your post — Is there link or another response someone may have suggested a fix for this? All went smoothly. Removing Exchange impacts Exchange items only mailboxes, contacts, public folders, etc. Hello Alex. Great stuff. Until now. I have migrated all users email from SBS Ex via Hybrid Ex method you excellently put together in another article.
I have to move files and such next, and then plan to remove Ex and then decom the SBS server by turning up a AD server for the domain. Alternatively, you may consider keeping a free Exchange server on-premises to maintain the hybrid connection. I was looking over your over migration guides, and did not really see this, but I could be mistaken. Having asked that, when its time to move the AD roles to a new Std server, do I keep AD Azure running or stop it for the migration?
You can leave the Azure AD Connect and Exchange in place—as long as there is an Exchange server in the org in your case a , then you can safely remove assuming there is no more important data left on it. I want to delete Exchange from an SBS server.
All mailboxes from the Ex server are migrated, gone or not needed. I will eventually be moving the user data and AD to a new server later this year, so the SBS server still needs to be in place for awhile. Properly removing will not remove any information from AD about Exchange-related properties on users, etc.
Thanks for the great article Alex! I am running in the Exchange Management shell as administrator. I have tried two different admin accounts with no luck either. When I run the commands it just sits there. I run the first one like this:. Is it supposed to take some time before I see the prompts to confirm after the command is run or am I supposed to run the commands in succession and then I will see the prompts?
Thanks again for this article! Accessing the page would produce a spinning loading screen in IE. Open ApplicationHost. Find the entry for kerbauth. Change the path for this dll as per the latest location of the Exchange Server installation files.
If you are cutting and pasting the two line commands, I found I had to combine them into a one line command to get them to work. You will get no progress, no confirmation wording, etc. However, I am getting errors when running PS commands. First one fails when trying to remove PublicFolderDatabase. So, I ignored that error with public folder, and ran the uninistall via CMD, which I was assuming wont work.
This is like the universal IT guidance for every problem. No users, including Administrator, were listed. Users lost connectivity to the network resources.
I am currently trying to figure out what to do. If your Windows environments have migrated to Exchange , you know that the use of the Exchange Management Shell has become a critical part of system administration. One of the topics that go along with de-provisioning an account is how to handle the e-mail account.
For some environments, you can retain the Windows account for a new hire once the e-mail account is archived. With Exchange , this task would require the use of the shell interface to retain the account and remove the e-mail attributes.
The other action would be the full removal of the Windows account and the Exchange mailbox. This functionality is important, as some organizations do not provide all employees e-mail. To remove the e-mail attribute from the Windows account yet retain the account, you can run either of these scripts from an Exchange Management Shell environment:.
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