Removing or disabling mailboxes
Mailboxes don’t last forever, and eventually you will want to remove some from Exchange, usually after users leave the company. You might want to keep a mailbox for some time after a user leaves so that its contents are not immediately lost and remain accessible to other users or even for legal purposes. EAC provides two options for mailbox removal: you can either disable or remove a mailbox. The words seem similar, but there’s a huge difference in what happens behind the scenes.
When you disable a mailbox, Exchange removes all the properties from the underlying Windows user account in Active Directory that associates the user with the mailbox. The contents of the mailbox are purged from its database after the deleted ...
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