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Your Thoughts On Disabling Accounts
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| Mark McCurdy 2002-07-31, 9:25 am |
| As a policy when an employee leaves the company I like to disable and hold
the account for 30 days. In NT4.0 and Exchange 5.5 land I used to rename
the login ID to zzzUSERNAME. That way it would sort the user name to the
bottom of USRMGR. I would also reset their email accounts to
username_X@domain.com The "X" would be added so all email would be
rejected. I would hold it open for 30 days so that if their manager needed
to check email out of their account I could still pull it up without having
to go to tape.
Now I'm in mixed domain with Exchange 2000. I had a user leave the company
and I right clicked on his name in "Users and Computers" and disabled the
account. The problem is now his manager wants to get back into his inbox
to check some emails. When I "re-enable" the account we can not get into
the email box. Do I have to re associate the mailbox and if so how would I
go about this?
Also in the future should I use a different approach to disable accounts?
Thank you for your help,
Mark
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| Joe Grover 2002-07-31, 11:25 am |
| When I have employees leave I use the EXMERGE utility to extract the mail
from the user's mailbox into a PST file and give that PST file to the
supervisor (they can then open it in Outlook as a Personal Folder) if they
wish it.
I have also done what you're doing, but didn't have any problem accessing
the mailbox after reenabling the account. I did need to wait until the AD
had synchronized so all DCs knew that the account was active again. Also,
I'm not in a mixed domain.
Joe Grover
"Mark McCurdy" <mark@mccurdy.net> wrote in message
news:OuCF#1JOCHA.2648@tkmsftngp11...
> As a policy when an employee leaves the company I like to disable and hold
> the account for 30 days. In NT4.0 and Exchange 5.5 land I used to rename
> the login ID to zzzUSERNAME. That way it would sort the user name to the
> bottom of USRMGR. I would also reset their email accounts to
> username_X@domain.com The "X" would be added so all email would be
> rejected. I would hold it open for 30 days so that if their manager
needed
> to check email out of their account I could still pull it up without
having
> to go to tape.
>
> Now I'm in mixed domain with Exchange 2000. I had a user leave the
company
> and I right clicked on his name in "Users and Computers" and disabled the
> account. The problem is now his manager wants to get back into his inbox
> to check some emails. When I "re-enable" the account we can not get into
> the email box. Do I have to re associate the mailbox and if so how would
I
> go about this?
>
> Also in the future should I use a different approach to disable accounts?
>
> Thank you for your help,
> Mark
>
>
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| Nino Bilic [MS] 2002-07-31, 11:25 pm |
| They should be able to go back in after re-enabling. Is it possible that it
was just the latency or the cache that had to expire? Do you still have this
problem?
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"Mark McCurdy" <mark@mccurdy.net> wrote in message
news:OuCF#1JOCHA.2648@tkmsftngp11...
> As a policy when an employee leaves the company I like to disable and hold
> the account for 30 days. In NT4.0 and Exchange 5.5 land I used to rename
> the login ID to zzzUSERNAME. That way it would sort the user name to the
> bottom of USRMGR. I would also reset their email accounts to
> username_X@domain.com The "X" would be added so all email would be
> rejected. I would hold it open for 30 days so that if their manager
needed
> to check email out of their account I could still pull it up without
having
> to go to tape.
>
> Now I'm in mixed domain with Exchange 2000. I had a user leave the
company
> and I right clicked on his name in "Users and Computers" and disabled the
> account. The problem is now his manager wants to get back into his inbox
> to check some emails. When I "re-enable" the account we can not get into
> the email box. Do I have to re associate the mailbox and if so how would
I
> go about this?
>
> Also in the future should I use a different approach to disable accounts?
>
> Thank you for your help,
> Mark
>
>
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