How can I disconnect a userA's mailbox and connect it to userB's mailbox. If I disable the mailbox it removes all the email from within....I must be doing something wrong here. I have been doing all my testing in the GUI. I'm sure this is easy, end of day brain cramp. :) Thanksd

Are you sure you are not choosing to remove the mailbox, rather than disable it? Or, are you setting this up as a test account? If it's a test, make sure you log onto the new mailbox and/or send messages to it. If you create it and then disable it without it being logged onto or accepting email, Exchange will delete it since it's never been used (rather than disconnect it). Disclaimer: The opinions expressed and/or postings on this site are my own personal opinions. They do not represent or reflect the opinions of my employer.

Hi, try to perform using powershell.. Disable Mailbox: disable-mailbox alias Reconnect the mailbox: connect-mailbox -database "mailbox database" -identity "user name" hope this may help. Thanks & Regards, Kottees R

Dave, interesting.. lemme try the same.. thanks for the info.Thanks & Regards, Kottees R

I guess I didn't wait enough, worked like a charm. Thanks for the advice.d

The behavior also depends on the mailbox store settings. In the properties of the store, under "limits" you can set how long deleted mailboxes will be kept on server. I think you should check this value firstly. Then you can disable mailbox for the first user account, removing thus exchange attributes for this particular user and marking his mailbox for deletion within the retention period (the value we already checked before). Here how it is described in Exchange Server help: Disable Click Disable to remove all Exchange attributes from the Active Directory user account. The user account will no longer be mailbox-enabled, but it will remain in Active Directory. Please do not mistake it with mailbox removal. If you choose Remove you will remove the user account that is associated with the mailbox from Active Directory. After successful disabling the mailbox in a short time you will found the orphaned mailbox in Exchange management console under the node Disconnected Mailbox from where you can reconnect it to another user account. It is important that the user account does not have a mailbox already associated with it. Here again the description from Exchange help file: Use the Disconnected Mailbox node under Recipient Configuration to view a list of all disconnected mailboxes in your Exchange Server 2007 organization and connect these mailboxes to user objects. A disconnected mailbox is a mailbox that is not associated with an Active Directory directory service user account. And the last. If you would prefer to test it firstly (I hope you do), please check that a new mailbox you create for testing is really in place: When you create a mailbox for a new or existing user, the Exchange attributes that are required for a mailbox are added to the user object in Active Directory. The associated mailbox object in the Exchange mailbox database is not created until the mailbox either receives a message or the user logs on to it. If you create a new mailbox, and then remove or disable that mailbox before the mailbox object in the Exchange mailbox database is created, it will not be available as a disconnected mailbox. Hope it helps Kind Regards Eduard

I guess I didn't wait enough, worked like a charm. Thanks for the advice.d