What were the exact steps taken to delete the mailboxes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:12 AM Subject: Retained Items In Deleted Then Recreated Mailboxes?
> Exch 5.5; SP4; Win2K Server; two-server org > > The exch admin of a recently-acquired company encountered a problem and > asked for my own input, never saw this particular problem so perhaps the > group might be able to share some experience. A few mailboxes with varying > amounts of content (up to 50Mb of mail) were deleted then recreated with the > same name, email address, etc. Instead of being empty the mailboxes > continued to list their predecessor's content in Mailbox Resources, you > could access the mailbox and all the old mail was still there. Their > creation date even remained from the original mailbox. The other oddity was > that almost exactly 24 hours later the mailboxes seem to have caught up with > their "resurrection" and no longer contain the old content and the creation > date is now acccurate. Any idea on what could have caused this delay in > updating? > > I initially suspected the changes had been made on one server in the org and > the visual checking of the mailboxes was being performed on the second, with > a possible replication error resulting in the old info still being visible. > Unfortunately for the troubleshooting process all the work and verification > was being done on the same server. Can't even chalk it up to user error (at > least, not theirs!) as I got into the loop about 2 hours before the 24 hour > reset and confirmed that the recreated mailboxes were indeed showing up as > their old version. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
