We don't either, however there was this one guy we discovered was using it....and we had to beat him over the head multiple times.....
We finally changed the password on it and never disclosed to him. Needless to say, he didn't last much longer after we discovered that (and some other things). Thanks, Jonathan From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 6:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange Hybrid Migration to O365 and the "Administrator" account Go ahead and remove it. I don't run with it, but I'm old school. I never use the administrator account. :) From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Raper Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 4:01 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange Hybrid Migration to O365 and the "Administrator" account Awesome. I love trying to see through mud. Thanks for the reply. I know that the "Administrator" account was not used to install WAAD or Exchange 2010/2013 (because I've done all of that with my admin account); however, prior to that I have no idea. We are presently still running Exchange 2007 (but soon to decommission). The setupwatsonlog shows that the upgrade to Ex2007 SP2 was performed by an Exchange Admin (not the "Administrator" account) on all 2007 servers....but I'm not seeing any logs prior to that for the actual install. Does that matter at this point? Knowing that......do you have an opinion you're willing to share? I am very tempted to remove the mailbox and route any email destined for "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" to an internal DL using EOP rules. Thanks, Jonathan From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 3:01 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange Hybrid Migration to O365 and the "Administrator" account The best practice in this area, right now, is clear as mud. The stated best practice is that admin accounts should not have mailboxes. However, there are a number of things, when it comes to managing Exchange, that you cannot do without an admin account that has a mailbox. They are slowly being fixed as they are bugged, but it's not exactly a real high-priority item for the PG. If, specifically, administrator was used to install Exchange or WAAD, your probably should leave it with a mailbox. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Raper Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 2:23 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange Hybrid Migration to O365 and the "Administrator" account Since I sent this on Friday afternoon, I'll give it another go.... Beuller? Thanks, Jonathan From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Raper Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 5:04 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] Exchange Hybrid Migration to O365 and the "Administrator" account Hi all, I am in the final throes of migrating my entire organization to O365. Ultimately we plan to have no mailboxes on-premises and only maintain hybrid sever for SMTP relay and administration. I am cleaning up non-human mailboxes and just recently realized that the domain "Administrator" account has a mailbox....with a few items in it. I don't particularly like the idea of that account having a mailbox at all, but was wondering if there was a best practice school of thought with how to handle that account. The items in there are SSL cert approval requests, sent by various SSL certificate providers for certs we have purchased in recent months. Any thoughts? Thanks, Jonathan NOTE: This message and any attachments is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, legally privileged, confidential, and/or exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the original sender immediately by telephone or return email and destroy or delete this message along with any attachments immediately. 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