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Exchange 2010 automatically deletes mailboxes when users are removed from AD. Are you seeing some evidence that this isn't occurring? 
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Exchange 2010 automatically deletes mailboxes when users are removed from AD. Are you seeing some evidence that this isn't occurring?

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One of our admins stated that if the Active Directory account was deleted from an XP workstation using the AD Users and Computers console, that it would orphan the mailbox. &nbsp;We have 3-4 that were deleted that way and our Exchange 2010 implementation is extremely new. &nbsp;Not everyone is a PowerShell user yet. &nbsp;So maybe I should start with the first part of the question. &nbsp;Is there an easy way to find an orphaned mailbox?
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One of our admins stated that if the Active Directory account was deleted from an XP workstation using the AD Users and Computers console, that it would orphan the mailbox.  We have 3-4 that were deleted that way and our Exchange 2010 implementation is extremely new.  Not everyone is a PowerShell user yet.  So maybe I should start with the first part of the question.  Is there an easy way to find an orphaned mailbox?

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Is there a simple way to locate a mailbox in Exchange 2010 where the user account was deleted in Active Directory and delete it?
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Is there a simple way to locate a mailbox in Exchange 2010 where the user account was deleted in Active Directory and delete it?

How do you find and remove an orphaned mailbox in Exchange 2010

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