Cannot connect deleted mailbox to a live user account

indyguy

Guys,

i have a issue when connecting deleted mailboxes to a live user account, when i try to choose a user its says object not found did a search on the enitre domain and it only lists the builtin users and mailenabled users but doesnt show any mailbox enabled users.

all help appreciated.

Cheers
Ivan

Claymoore

That's because those users already have a mailbox and you cannot re-attach a different mailbox to them. If you need to re-attach a user to a deleted mailbox, you must create a new, non-mailbox enabled user and then attach the mailbox.

I accidentally deleted a user account once during an audit because the user got married and changed her name. Accounting was using her new name, HR never sent us a name change ticket and even her manager said that user no longer worked for the company. I didn't know much about Exchange at the time, but I figured out how to reattach a mailbox in a hurry.

snadam

Claymoore wrote:

That's because those users already have a mailbox and you cannot re-attach a different mailbox to them. If you need to re-attach a user to a deleted mailbox, you must create a new, non-mailbox enabled user and then attach the mailbox.

I accidentally deleted a user account once during an audit because the user got married and changed her name. Accounting was using her new name, HR never sent us a name change ticket and even her manager said that user no longer worked for the company. I didn't know much about Exchange at the time, but I figured out how to reattach a mailbox in a hurry.

sounds all too familiar...

indyguy

Claymoore wrote:

That's because those users already have a mailbox and you cannot re-attach a different mailbox to them. If you need to re-attach a user to a deleted mailbox, you must create a new, non-mailbox enabled user and then attach the mailbox.

I accidentally deleted a user account once during an audit because the user got married and changed her name. Accounting was using her new name, HR never sent us a name change ticket and even her manager said that user no longer worked for the company. I didn't know much about Exchange at the time, but I figured out how to reattach a mailbox in a hurry.

Ahh man ... that was simple, i just couldnt think of it... !!! thanks for helping out claymoore.

Cheers