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BlackBerry Service account is everywhere in my AD domain and Exchange Mailboxes ?

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Can anyone here please assist me with what isthe safest way to delete the account from my Active Directory ?

The BlackBerry server has been turned off and decommisisoned 3 years ago.

But when I go to AD Users & Computers, and right click on the domain.com root I can see in the security tab it is lsited there as well ?

and also DOMAIN\BESAdmin is always exist in all Exchange mailboxes:

Manage Send As permission
Manage Full Access permission

How to remove the permission altogether safely without causing email flow outage issue ?

Thanks.

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Shyjin Varaprath

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Albert Widjaja

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ok, when I reverse or remove the permission, can I do it during business hours ?

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Albert Widjaja

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Ah I see,

what could be the worst case scenario/things to happens ?

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Zacharia Kurian

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Albert Widjaja

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@simon and everyone,

The BESAdmin account has been granted at the root domain.com of my AD.
So I suppose I can just remove it during the bsuiness hours with no issue.

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