{"id":1189,"date":"2016-12-20T16:01:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2016-12-20T16:01:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:01:30","slug":"disable-email-accounts-in-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/disable-email-accounts-in-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Email Accounts in Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deleting Mailbox in Exchange Admin Console will delete the attached AD objects!<\/b><\/p>\n

Always great to find out afterwards – thank you Microsoft. :\/<\/p>\n

So\u2026.to just disable an account:<\/p>\n

In the Exchange Management Console, right-click and select disable mailbox<\/p>\n

or <\/p>\n

in the Exchange Management PowerShell, use the Disable-Mailbox cmdlet:<\/p>\n

Disable-Mailbox -Identity {mailboxname} -Confirm:$false<\/p>\n

Disabling the mailbox will remove the Exchange attributes from the Active Directory object, which disconnects the mailbox and leaves the Active Directory object intact.<\/p>\n

The user account will remain in Active Directory and disconnected mailbox will be purged after retention period passes.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

You may also need to change a group\u2019s ownership:<\/p>\n

Type in the following command and replace \u201cdistribution group\u201d with the actual group whose owner is changing.<\/p>\n

[PS] >Set-DistributionGroup "distribution group" \u2013ManagedBy "admin.serviceaccount@whomever.com" -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deleting Mailbox in Exchange Admin Console will delete the attached AD objects! Always great to find out afterwards – thank you Microsoft. :\/ So\u2026.to just disable an account: In the Exchange Management Console, right-click and select disable mailbox or in the Exchange Management PowerShell, use the Disable-Mailbox cmdlet: Disable-Mailbox -Identity {mailboxname} -Confirm:$false Disabling the mailbox … Continue reading “Disable Email Accounts in Exchange”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,174,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-exchange","category-microsoft-exchage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t