In my Excahnge environment I right clicked a mailbox and chose "remove". The "Deleted Mailbox Retrntion" is set for 30 days. is this mailbox gone or should it be available for recovey for 30 days. I checked the "Disconnected Mailboxes" the following day and it was not there.

It shuld be there for you to reocover, mbx may have not been marked just yet, you may have to run the clean-mailboxdatabase - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124076(EXCHG.80).aspx Also, if you checlked Do not permanently delete mailboxes and items until the store has been backed up it may have been purged Or wait. Then you can reconnect if you wish. Sukh

On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 07:50:13 +0000, Email Tech wrote: >In my Excahnge environment I right clicked a mailbox and chose "remove". The "Deleted Mailbox Retrntion" is set for 30 days. is this mailbox gone or should it be available for recovey for 30 days. If you've made no changes to the "Keep deleted mailboxes for (days)" value on the mailbox database then the mailbox will remain in the database for 30 days. You shold be able to reconnect the mailbox to the original AD user or to another AD user that isn't mailbox-enabled. >I checked the "Disconnected Mailboxes" the following day and it was not there. Try running "Clean-MailboxDatabase" on all your mailbox databases and then check again after a while. The disconnected mailbox will only appear in the "Disconnected Mailboxes" view after the information stor discovers that the "full directory name" stored in the mailbox no longer has a match to any "legacyExchangeDN" property value in the AD. If your normal background maintenance tasks aren't running then the mailbox may not have been checked for a "connection" with an AD user. OTOH, someone else may have permanently removed the mailbox -- or your retention period isn't what you think it is (maybe it's zero, not thirty, days?) and the mailbox was removed by the background maintenance tasks. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Hi, Deleting a mailbox does not mean that it is permanently removed from the Exchange Information store database. Actually when you delete a mailbox in Microsoft Exchange server, it is disconnected for a retention period. During this period, you can easily reconnect it. Read more about how to recover deleted mailbox when it is in retention period: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274343 Note: At the end of the retention period, the user's mailboxes are permanently removed from the Exchange server database and only a backup copy or a third party Exchange recovery tool can help you to recover these mailboxes. Regards,