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ON SBS 2003 R2, I am embarrassed to be asking this - it seems so trivial.. so much so that I can't seem to even find the answer on the web.<br />
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a user leaves the company. &nbsp;You want to disable their access, remove their name from the GAL and have emails either <br />
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a) bounce like any other invalid address <br />
or<br />
b) get forwarded to a different user.<br />
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my question revolves around disabling vs. deleting the user account.<br />
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which if either / both will cause the mail to bounce (or black hole - I know that's a setting on the exchange part of SBS)?<br />
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thanks!
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ON SBS 2003 R2, I am embarrassed to be asking this - it seems so trivial.. so much so that I can't seem to even find the answer on the web.

a user leaves the company.  You want to disable their access, remove their name from the GAL and have emails either 

a) bounce like any other invalid address 
or
b) get forwarded to a different user.

my question revolves around disabling vs. deleting the user account.

which if either / both will cause the mail to bounce (or black hole - I know that's a setting on the exchange part of SBS)?

thanks!

Disable vs. delete user account and what happens to future incoming mail to that address?

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).