Enable a Disabled Mailbox Exchange 2010

Please find link below

http://exchangeserverpro.com/reconnect-disconnected-mailbox-exchange-server-2010/

Hi dsnegi_25dec

Your link doesn't work because the mailbox is not showing up as disconnected.. when I run the command it displays nothing.

Hi Granwizzard

ok I'm following your link to restore from backup and here is where I'm getting stuck...
I have successfully mounted the RecoverDB Database and when I run get-mailbox stastics it shows me the list of mailboxes including the one I want to recover.  However when I try to run the command..
Restore-Mailbox -Identity "Joe Bloggs" -RecoveryDatabase RecoverDB
it displays the following error...
Mailbox "19de98be-8332-43ea-9b69-5f89692c5bdb" doesn't exist on database "RecoverDB".
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (0:Int32) [Restore-Mailbox], ManagementObjectNotFoundE
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : FFE27AAC,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.RestoreMailbox

Hi.

If I understand, you Disable the mailbox this will remove the Exchange attributes for the user account but leave the user account in Active Directory.  The mailbox is then also left in the Exchange mailbox database until the retention period has elapsed, then it is removed permanently.

Use EMC:
So first In the console tree, navigate to Recipient Configuration > Disconnected Mailbox

If the mailbox is there click Connect and follow the instructions or you can see here all the process Use the EMC to connect a disabled mailbox


If the mailbox is not there it´s because the retention period has elapsed.

Since I mention to do the restore disregard for now that suggestion,and lets try another aproach and see if work:

Example:

1º Use the Get-MailboxStatistics cmdlet to find the display name, legacy distinguished name (DN), or mailbox GUID of the disabled mailbox.
 This example returns the LegacyDN, DisplayName, MailboxGUID, and DisconnectReason values for all mailboxes on mailbox database MBD01 that have a disconnect reason of Disabled.

 

Get-MailboxStatistics -Database MBD01 | Where { $_.DisconnectReason -eq "Disabled" } | Format-List LegacyDN, DisplayName, MailboxGUID, DisconnectReason

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2º Use the New-MailboxRestoreRequest cmdlet to create the restore request.
 This example restores the disabled mailbox that has the mailbox GUID 1d20855f-fd54-4681-98e6-e249f7326ddd on mailbox database MDB01 to the target mailbox Ayla. This example assumes that the legacy DN of the target mailbox matches the legacy DN of the source mailbox.

New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase "MDB01" -SourceStoreMailbox 1d20855f-fd54-4681-98e6-e249f7326ddd -TargetMailbox Ayla

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3º This example restores the disabled mailbox Tony Smith to the target mailbox tony@contoso.com on the target mailbox database MDB01. The AllowLegacyDNMismatch parameter is used so the source mailbox can be restored to a mailbox that doesn't have the same legacy DN value.

New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase "MDB01" -SourceStoreMailbox "Tony Smith" -TargetMailbox tony@contoso.com -AllowLegacyDNMismatch

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Let us know if work.

Regards

Hi

The Disabled Mailbox was there before I started this process today, so I know it hadn't been purged.  I am baffled to why it created a duplicate mailbox though.

Ok I've managed to get the restore to work, after numerous attempts by tweaking the command to this..

Restore-Mailbox -Identity "Joe Bloggs" -RecoveryDatabase RecoverDB -RecoveryMailbox "Joe Bloggs" -TargetFolder Recovery

The mailbox is now recovering, so hopefully it will be just a case of logging into Outlook and moving the items out from the "Recovery" folder upto the mailbox level.

Thank you for your assistance.
Regards
Gareth

If nothing work on my last previous post, that was my next suggestion, but on the link that I post on my first post the command that you used on your last post is there mentioned.

Let me know if worked for you.

We are all here to helped each other today is you tomorrow will be me.


Regards.

Yes is is the link on your first post, but with some tweaking that did the trick.. so I will award points for that.

Thanks.
Gareth