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":"
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