And then run Exmerge on the new one so you can merge the new mail into the old mailbox.
You'd have to delete the mailbox again before you can re-connect the user to the old mailbox, but it should work fine, as Andrey says. You can also investigate something like this as another alternative. http://www.messageone.com/products/ - look at EMS specifically. Ben Winzenz Microsoft Exchange MVP Network Engineer Gardner & White Ph (317) 843-3418 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fyodorov, Andrey FTL Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:01 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Change Mailbox Name Yes. Just make sure that you have a retention period set for the deleted mailboxes. This way when server A comes back, you will be able to reconnect the old mailbox to the user's account. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jones, Becky Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:57 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Change Mailbox Name im just talking about in the interm. i want the user to be able to send and recieve mail until box A can get back up. would delete/recreate be the easiest way? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fyodorov, Andrey FTL Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Change Mailbox Name You could do that if you don't care about the contents of mailbox on server A. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jones, Becky Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 2:17 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Change Mailbox Name If exchange box A goes down, how in active directory would i point a user to exchange box B? would i have to delete and recreate the users mailbox? 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