Deleted AD user needs email back

[vdumatol]

An active directory user was deleted but their old mailbox hasn't been deleted. I created a new account in active directory but that didn't solve their accessing their Exchange mailbox. Now there are 2 mailboxes in Exchange with their name. One of course has a lot of emails in it that we would like the "new user" to be able to access again. How best can i go about this.

It doesn't look like any data is gone. It seems if i could find a way to give someone access to a mailbox then i could give this person access to their old mailbox.

Is my problem that there are 2 users with the same mailbox name and the system is confused?

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

I would delete the newly created mailbox by running exchange tasks on the user account. From exchange system manager I would right-click on the old mailbox, choose reconnect, and use the "Select User" box to attach it to the new user.

Jesse Hamrick

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[markdmac]

Jesse is correct. And after you reconnect the mailbox, you should right click the second one and choose to purge it.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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