Managing disconnected mailboxes

Exchange allows us to disassociate a mailbox from an Active Directory user account and later reconnect that mailbox to the same or a different account. For some organizations, a mailbox database has a low deleted mailbox retention setting, and once a mailbox has been disconnected for a user, it is forgotten about and purged from the database once the retention period elapses (which is 30 days by default). However, if you maintain your deleted mailboxes for any amount of time, having the ability to retrieve these mailboxes after they have been removed from a user can, at times, be very helpful. In this recipe, we will take a look at how to manage disconnected mailboxes using the Exchange Management Shell.

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