How-to-remove-disconnected-mailboxes.doc

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been searching threads and here in experts exchange and still cannot quite get the above done<br />
had an engineer delete user objects in AD but did not remove the mailboxes in EMC<br />
now we have 8 disconnected mailboxes and cannot get rid of them<br />
I ran the following but it did not do anything but get me back to &gt;&gt;&nbsp;prompt in the exchange management shell <br />
Get-MailboxStatistics -database &quot;HSTC1\First Storage Group\Mailbox database&quot;&quot; | where {$_.disconnectdate -ne $null} | foreach {Remove-mailbox -database $_.database -storemailboxidentity $_.mailboxguid}<br />
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all help is greatly appreciated
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been searching threads and here in experts exchange and still cannot quite get the above done
had an engineer delete user objects in AD but did not remove the mailboxes in EMC
now we have 8 disconnected mailboxes and cannot get rid of them
I ran the following but it did not do anything but get me back to >> prompt in the exchange management shell 
Get-MailboxStatistics -database "HSTC1\First Storage Group\Mailbox database"" | where {$_.disconnectdate -ne $null} | foreach {Remove-mailbox -database $_.database -storemailboxidentity $_.mailboxguid}

all help is greatly appreciated

how to delete disconnected mailboxes exchange 2007

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.