I have a mailbox on my server that I need to regain access to and I'm weak on Exchange. We're running Exchange 2000. I have a mailbox that I don't believe has been marked for deletion. TheCEO wanted a brand new ID because he thought a fresh start was in order after TONS of offline folder, folder redirection, 3rd party folder synchronization issues from a couple of past admins. Very long story but neadless to say, he said make me a new "account" so I made him a new account. I went in did an archive of everything in his mailbox before tomorrow (everything). Thendisabled his current user ID and changed the account user logon name so that I could resuse what he's used to. I I then right clicked on the ID and did Exchange Tasks and told it to remove all exchange properties (so i could reuse the email address currently associated with it). I did not delete his user ID and I don't think it ever asked me if I wanted to mark the mailbox for deletion. I think it's more of an orphaned mailbox with no account associated with it. Anyhow, how do I get his old user account, which is now ssmith1, so that it can access the mailbox andsave off all the contacts on the server?

1. You can reconnect the old mailbox that is dissconnected to the new user ID. When reconnecting disconnected mailboxes you will only have the option to reconnect it to a user that does not yet have a mailbox associated with it. So if you have already mail enabled the new id you must firstremove the exchange attributes from it before reconnecting it to the old mailbox. 2. Or you could use exmerge to export the mailbox data to a pst, and then import it to the new mailbox.