At the risk of repeating myself for the nth time, where n is greater than 2 but somewhat less than 42, why not just do what the event log tells you to do? It's easy, clean, trackable, everything. Why is this thread even still alive?
1. Associate a fictitious account with it. 2. Don't disable the account; just change the password to something ridiculously complex. 3. Purge the mailbox. 4. Delete the account as you normally would, but have deleted mailbox retention set up. You can ALWAYS associate that mailbox with another user at any moment that you like, per suggestion 1. I have no clue why, but each and every one of these seems mind-bogglingly simple to me. > -----Original Message----- > From: David Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: Friday, May 03, 2002 11:39 AM > Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List > Conversation: Really annoying when you disable an account. > Subject: RE: Really annoying when you disable an account. > > > We ran into this same annoyance at my last employer. We > ended up changing our policy so that we deleted the mailbox > in these situations. We set our deleted mailbox recovery > time period to cover any needs anyone had to get access to a > mailbox for xx days after an employee had left. I preferred > the old 5.5 method of just disabling the accounts and not > having Exchange give me a steady stream of errors in the > event log, but that didn't appear to be an option. Other > possibilities include just living with the 9548's as we do at > our current (much smaller) site, or archiving the mailbox to > a .pst and then deleting it. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Varghese, Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:10 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Really annoying when you disable an account. > > > Yes Exchange 2000. I think I didn't explain this too well. > I WANT to disable an account because the user left the firm. > I DON'T want to delete the account and mailbox for 30 to 60 > days just in case someone needs to access it. But once I > disable the account, the damn errors pop up constantly. How > do I tell the system, "hey, this user is no longer with the > firm so I'm going to disable his account. But don't delete > the account and quit sending me dumb errors"? > > Thanks, > > Wilson > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:50 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Really annoying when you disable an account. > > Exchange 2000? Associate an active account with the mailbox. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Varghese, Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:11 PM > Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List > Conversation: Haiku Friday > Subject: RE: Really annoying when you disable an account. > > > Anyone have any info on this or am I SOL? > > Thank in advance. > Wilson > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Varghese, Wilson > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 8:48 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Really annoying when you disable an account. > > > How come when you disable an account for a user that has left > the company, you get a billion event 9548s? This is so damn > annoying, is > there a way to turn it off? Besides, I just disabled the account, I > didn't remove it's master account SID so what's the problem? > Is there a way to stop this event error from popping up all the time? > > Thanks, > > Wilson > > ______________ _________________________________________________________________ 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]
