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Locate disconnected mailbox in Exchange

Hi

I asked this question here: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26953774/Locate-disconnected-mailbox-in-Exchange.html

But just realised that I didn't get the full answer I was looking for! I need to know how to run the commands only on US servers.

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Sometimes our support teams accidentally delete the wrong AD account when users leave our company and their mailboxes are set to a 'disconnected' state within our Exchange 2007 environment.

In order to find them again, we need to locate the disconnected mailbox from Exchange. This has two issues:

1. We need to run the 'clean-mailboxdatabase' command to update the names of disconnected mailboxes in a particular db
2. We can only search by each mailbox db in turn

I would like to do the following

a) Run a command that would run clean-mailboxdatabase on all US Exchange servers
b) Run a command that would 'get' all disconnected mailboxes on US Exchange databases

Our Exchange servers are named in the format, region-mbx1, e.g. US-Mbx1, EMEA-Mbx1, APAC-Mbx1.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

Secondly, is there a disadvantage to running clean-mailbox on all databases on a given server at the same time?

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Exchange_Freak

I have not tried it but see if you can run the command as Get-ExchangeServer | Get-MailboxDatabase | Clean-Mailboxdatabase

neil4933

ASKER

Sure, but I only want to run the Clean Mailbox on US servers?

And do you know how I'd find disconnected mailboxes only on US servers?

Exchange_Freak

Get-Exchangeserver "Names of the US Servers" | Get-MailboxDatabase | Clean-MailboxDatabase

Chris Dent

You should be able to see disconnected mailboxes using Get-MailboxStatistics (probably have to target the database name). Sorry I can't give you a specific example right now, won't be at work until Thursday.

Chris

Shabarinath TR

Even though you dont run the cleanup script, the mailbox will get disconnected in 2 to 3 hours usually.

Here is a nice oneliner to get the disconnected mailboxes using powershell and wmi.

http://exchangeservertips.com/exchange-2010/powershell-script-to-identify-disconnected-mailboxes/

Good luck
Shaba

Chris Dent

That'll only work for 2003, not for 2007 / 2010, the WMI interface was introduced (mostly) for 2003, then stripped out again for 2007.

Chris

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GusGallows

You can go a step further to make it where you can see which server they are on by adding a few additional lines:

#create an array of all US mailbox servers and then iterate through them one at a time.
$Servers = get-exchangeserver | where {($_.Name -like "US*") -and ($_.IsMailboxServer -eq $true)}
foreach ($Server in $Servers)
{ 
	#get a list of all databases on the selected server and clean them.
	$mdbs = Get-MailboxDatabase -Server $Server
	foreach ($mdb in $mdbs)
	{
		Clean-MailboxDatabase $mdb
	}
	#get a list of all disconnected mailboxes on the selected server.
	$mbs = Get-MailboxStatistics –Server $Server | Where-Object {$_.DisconnectDate –notlike ‘’}
	$server
	$mbs
}

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