I run exchange 2013 CU3 on windows 2008R2 - I several people who are gone, their mailboxes need to be accessible to other people in the department. When these people departed they never unsubscribed to personal listserv and are still receiving personal email to their mailbox.

My question is: Is there a way to stop all future incoming mail (internally & externally) without disabling the account, like I said these mailboxes have to be accessible.

Any help would be appreciated.

RJM

 

That's easy. Just set the -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota to a very low value for example 1KB.

• Proposed as answer by Amit TankMVP, Moderator 8 hours 2 minutes ago
• Marked as answer by Edward van BiljonMVP, Moderator 1 hour 6 minutes ago

That's easy. Just set the -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota to a very low value for example 1KB.

• Proposed as answer by Amit TankMVP, Moderator Thursday, July 16, 2015 11:26 PM
• Marked as answer by Edward van BiljonMVP, Moderator Friday, July 17, 2015 6:22 AM

That's easy. Just set the -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota to a very low value for example 1KB.

• Proposed as answer by Amit TankMVP, Moderator Thursday, July 16, 2015 11:26 PM
• Marked as answer by Edward van BiljonMVP, Moderator Friday, July 17, 2015 6:22 AM

I would suggest just removing all email addresses that are assigned to this mailbox. Use the following powershell command to accomplish this...

Set-Mailbox -Identity User1 -EmailAddressPolicyEnabled $false -EmailAddresses $null

You will still be able to attach the mailbox to an Outlook session as another user.

Will.

• Edited by Will Szymkowski- 11 hours 9 minutes ago
• Proposed as answer by David Wang_Microsoft contingent staff 2 hours 19 minutes ago

I would suggest just removing all email addresses that are assigned to this mailbox. Use the following powershell command to accomplish this...

Set-Mailbox -Identity User1 -EmailAddressPolicyEnabled $false -EmailAddresses $null

You will still be able to attach the mailbox to an Outlook session as another user.

Will.

• Edited by Will Szymkowski- Thursday, July 16, 2015 8:20 PM
• Proposed as answer by David Wang_Microsoft contingent staff Friday, July 17, 2015 5:10 AM

I would suggest just removing all email addresses that are assigned to this mailbox. Use the following powershell command to accomplish this...

Set-Mailbox -Identity User1 -EmailAddressPolicyEnabled $false -EmailAddresses $null

You will still be able to attach the mailbox to an Outlook session as another user.

Will.

• Edited by Will Szymkowski- Thursday, July 16, 2015 8:20 PM
• Proposed as answer by David Wang_Microsoft contingent staff Friday, July 17, 2015 5:10 AM

Hi,

I agree with Li. We can use the below command:

set-mailbox -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota XX

For more detailed information, please refer to the below link:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123981(v=exchg.150).aspx

Regards,

David

• Edited by David Wang_Microsoft contingent staff 2 hours 8 minutes ago

If you remove the SMTP address, users will have difficulties configuring their Outlook because autodiscover is based on SMTP address. OWA logon will also fail.

• Edited by Li Zhen 1 hour 34 minutes ago

Hi,

I agree with Li. We can use the below command:

set-mailbox -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota XX

For more detailed information, please refer to the below link:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123981(v=exchg.150).aspx

Regards,

David

• Edited by David Wang_Microsoft contingent staff Friday, July 17, 2015 5:21 AM

Hi,

I agree with Li. We can use the below command:

set-mailbox -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota XX

For more detailed information, please refer to the below link:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123981(v=exchg.150).aspx

Regards,

David

• Edited by David Wang_Microsoft contingent staff Friday, July 17, 2015 5:21 AM

If you remove the SMTP address, users will have difficulties configuring their Outlook because autodiscover is based on SMTP address. OWA logon will also fail.

• Edited by Li Zhen Friday, July 17, 2015 5:55 AM

If you remove the SMTP address, users will have difficulties configuring their Outlook because autodiscover is based on SMTP address. OWA logon will also fail.

• Edited by Li Zhen Friday, July 17, 2015 5:55 AM