Re: SBS 2003 deleting old users and mailboxes

As Cris says, exmerge if the mail boxes are under 2 GB. There are also third
party archiving programs if this happens to you a lot. You should investigate
that they will arechive an orphaned mailbox, or one where the user account
is disabled, unless you wish to reattach or enable them.

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> exmerge
>
> "Mike" <> wrote in message
> news:BC8B6FDD-C57B-4C5F-887B-...
> Yes, and that deletes the Exchange mailbox as well. Is there a way
> to
> archive the e-mail either via ESM or some other means without
> enabling the
> account, resetting the password, logging in to a computer, setting
> up
> Outlook,then writing off to a .pst file, and doing that for each
> user account?
> Mike
>
> "Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP]" wrote:
>
>> You just go to the SBS Console, Click on the user...you should see a
>> link/icon to delete the user You should archive mail before doing
>> that.
>>
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>> "Mike" <> wrote in message
>> newsFEA1B6F-72FF-4637-9584-...
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for the proper procedure to remove a user account that is
>> not in
>>
>> use anymore (employee leaves the company, etc), and and e-mail
>> account. I
>>
>> typically forward their e-mail to another employee for a while so
>> that the
>>
>> recipients learn that a partricular e-mail address isn't valid
>> anymore, but I
>>
>> likely should save the e-mail, but would like to archive it so it
>> isn't
>>
>> eating up space. I typically just disable the users account and
>> leave it
>>
>> there, but I feel that I should clean it up after a while. I wasn't
>> sure if
>>
>> there was a wizard to do this in 2003 or not.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike