Re: Its a mystery...

Starbuck <Starbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Its a mystery.
Yep.

Someone here went into AD and deleted a users account today.
A valid user, who's account should not have been deleted. Who that
person is, will remain a mystery. All admins and junior admins
with permission to delete an account deny that it was them.
And so I guess it will remain a mystery.

By now you can probably guess how thrilled I am about all this...

OK, so here's my question:

If I look in Exchange System Manager /mailboxes I can still see
a mailbox with half a gig of mail in it that belongs to this user.
So, if I re-create the user account in AD, will it re-attach to the
users mailbox, will it blow the mailbox away, or will it do something
else undesirable ?

Basically, I need to recreate this users account and recover thier
mail.

BTW, a "find" in AD comes up dry, the account wasn't moved.

Thanks much.


*$

aa#2290

To reconnect the existing mailbox to a new user account, see
http://www.petri.co.il/recover_a_deleted_mailbox.htm

In the future, you should be able to configure auditing for this sort of
thing. And, your admins should have special accounts they use for their
admin work (as opposed to their daily work) and should not know each others'
passwords, nor should they know the built-in admin account passwords. This
helps.


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