Hi
I thought I'd asked this question previously, but can't seem to find any trace of the post.
We have hundreds, it not thousands of disconnected mailboxes in Exchange. For whatever reason, the leaver's process hasn't always been followed and the zero day archiving policy hasn't been applied before the AD account has been deleted.
The retention on these disconnected mailboxes is set at 10 years in Exchange.
Ideally I'd like to either :
- Import into Enterprise Vault, for which an EV archive already exists.
- If the above isn't possible, move these disconnected mailboxes to a non-production Exchange server.
As far as I can see either option above means recreating an AD account for each mailbox and then reconnecting the mailbox.
I'm not keen on this solution as it takes some time to do, and it also makes these mailboxes live and 'visible' to the rest of the organisation as live users.
Or is there some other solution I haven't considered?
Thanks!