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Mike
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      06-15-2010
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
 
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Mike
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      06-15-2010
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

 
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