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If you remove a dismounted, EMPTY (meaning no mailboxes have the homeMDB value pointed there) database then it just removes the logical connection between AD and Exchange (e.g: removing the database attributes and database from active directory). You still need to clean up the physical .edb and .log files.
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If you remove a dismounted, EMPTY (meaning no mailboxes have the homeMDB value pointed there) database then it just removes the logical connection between AD and Exchange (e.g: removing the database attributes and database from active directory). You still need to clean up the physical .edb and .log files.

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Adam what you mean when you said &quot;clean up the physical .edb and .log files&quot;
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Adam what you mean when you said "clean up the physical .edb and .log files"

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EDB file will not be remove until it isn't physically deleted.
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EDB file will not be remove until it isn't physically deleted.

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If I remove a dismount Database from Exchange 2010, I remove edb physical from the disk or just from Exchange 2010
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If I remove a dismount Database from Exchange 2010, I remove edb physical from the disk or just from Exchange 2010

Remove dismount Database from Exchange 2010

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