How much time do you have till they need to be purged? 
 
Any benefit of lowering the mailbox retention time for the duration of the removal process (or permanently if that fits?)  Maybe lower it to a day or two and let the system take care of this.  You may want to increase the online maintenance process time to run as well.
 
IIRC, these are settings you can make via policy.
 
Al


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Does mbconn purge mailboxes? I just looked at it and it s like it only reconnects I think…

 

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Oh... I think you are screwed. :o)

 

I once looked at alternate methods to do this and mailbox reconnects but it was all MAPI based and MS was very ungiving in terms of documentation around this stuff. What I got working was so incredibly flakey I didn't trust it and it never made it out of very very raw pre-alpha POC stage.

 

I really would like to find some other method because the method MS gave for doing reconnects in E2K3 completely sucks though they can at least say it is better than what was available for E2K. We went from unforgivable to sucky. I wish they would publish source to the ESM or mbconn which are doing this stuff through MAPI from what I can tell.

 

  joe

 

 


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Danke. Just that I’m running on Ex2000.

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
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Recipe 17.13 in the Windows Server Cookbook...

 

It is probably on Robbie's website somewhere, I would post it here but I am not clear if I have the rights to even though I wrote the script. I believe it is owned by O'Reilly.

 

  joe

 


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I’m pretty sure we’ve had this discussion here before, but I can’t find the thread. :( I need to programmatically purge a fairly extensive list of mailboxes across more than a dozen mailbox servers. I cannot wait the retention time, and I certainly cannot run the cleanup agent on 12 servers x 4 storage groups x 5 mailstores manually. I have this feeling I’m going to be told I’m SOL, but, can I purge mailboxes somehow in code/script?

 

Thx,

brian

 

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