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Removing a Disconnected Mailbox using PowerShell
I am using Exchange 2010 SP1. While I was setting things up, I created 4 test accounts. Now that everything is working, I deleted those test accounts from the Recipient Configuration\Mailbox area. Now they are sitting in the Disconnected Mailbox area.
I found a Powershell script from Technet that I have been trying to use to permanently delete these mailboxes, but cannot get it to work. The example script is this:
$Temp = Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.DisplayName -eq 'John Rodman'}
Remove-Mailbox -Database Server01\Database01 -StoreMailboxIdentity $Temp.MailboxGuid
However, when I execute these cmdlets the first one executes, but does NOT return the GUID value into the $Temp variable. And then obviously the 2nd cmdlet fails with the error saying that -StoreMailboxIdentity has a 'null' value.
Does anyone have any experience successfully executing these scripts? Or does anyone have a better and working method of permanently removing mailboxes from the Disconnected Mailbox area?
Thank you in advance,
Jeff
I found a Powershell script from Technet that I have been trying to use to permanently delete these mailboxes, but cannot get it to work. The example script is this:
$Temp = Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.DisplayName -eq 'John Rodman'}
Remove-Mailbox -Database Server01\Database01 -StoreMailboxIdentity $Temp.MailboxGuid
However, when I execute these cmdlets the first one executes, but does NOT return the GUID value into the $Temp variable. And then obviously the 2nd cmdlet fails with the error saying that -StoreMailboxIdentity has a 'null' value.
Does anyone have any experience successfully executing these scripts? Or does anyone have a better and working method of permanently removing mailboxes from the Disconnected Mailbox area?
Thank you in advance,
Jeff
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vicoso,
I get an error on the cmdlet of Get-MailboxStatistics, on the "where-object" parm.
I tried using both "where -object" and "where-object" (thinking I needed a space between the dash and the where).
The error(s) I get are as follows:
(Using 'where-object'): Where-Object : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Select'
(Using 'where -object'): Where -Object : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'object'.
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Jeff
I get an error on the cmdlet of Get-MailboxStatistics, on the "where-object" parm.
I tried using both "where -object" and "where-object" (thinking I needed a space between the dash and the where).
The error(s) I get are as follows:
(Using 'where-object'): Where-Object : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Select'
(Using 'where -object'): Where -Object : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'object'.
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Jeff
If you have a chance have a look at the link posted above
ASKER
This Powershell cmdlet worked great!
Thank you,
Thank you,
Get-MailboxStatistics | where-object { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | Select DisplayName,MailboxGuid
Removing all users at the same time
$users = Get-MailboxStatistics | where-object { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | Select DisplayName,MailboxGuid
Now that we have all disconnected mailboxes in a var, we can run the following cmdlet to remove all of them:
$users | ForEach { Remove-Mailbox -Database "Mailbox Database" -StoreMailboxIdentity $_.MailboxGuid -confirm:$false }