Hi everybody,

I disabled a mailbox by giving "Disable-Mailbox" command and then enabled it using "Enable-Mailbox" command. Prior to giving "Enable-Mailbox" command, that mailbox had emails. After running "Enable-Mailbox", it is empty. Can you suggest any way to have the emails back into the mailbox?

Thanks & regards,

Amit Jha

• Edited by jha.amit6666 Friday, May 15, 2015 9:14 AM
• Moved by Jason Johnston [MSFT]Microsoft employee Friday, May 15, 2015 1:38 PM Not a development question.

Hi ManU,

Result of 

Get-MailboxDatabase | Get-MailboxStatistics | ? {$_.DisconnectReason -ne $null} | ft Displayname, Database, Disconnectreason -Auto

is

DisplayName                  Database                    DisconnectReason
-----------                  --------                    ----------------
exchange e.j.. journalingBox Mailbox Database 0767329207         Disabled

when when I did "Enable-Mailbox" on it after "Disable-Mailbox".

I created another AD User journalingBox2@domain.com and ran 

Connect-Mailbox -Identity 'journalingBox' -Database 'db name' -User 'journalingBox2'

Result is:

Mailbox "journalingBox" doesn't exist on database "db name".
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (journalingBox:StoreMailboxIdParameter) [Connect-Mailbox], MdbAdminTaskExc
   eption
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=RB-EX2,RequestId=efeb59ff-9a13-4242-998f-01806cb76d15,TimeStamp=18.05.2015 09:36
   :06] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-MdbAdminTaskException] 314B555F,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.MapiTasks.ConnectMailbo
  x
    + PSComputerName        : fqdn

Note: journalingBox was the mailbox which was disabled and enabled.

Hi ManU,

Result of 

Get-MailboxDatabase | Get-MailboxStatistics | ? { $_.DisconnectReason -ne $null } | fl DisplayName, Database, DisconnectReason -Auto

is

DisplayName                  Database                    DisconnectReason
-----------                  --------                    ----------------
exchange e.j.. journalingBox Mailbox Database 0767329207         Disabled

when when I did "Enable-Mailbox" on it after "Disable-Mailbox".

I created another AD User 'journalingBox2@domain.com" and ran 

Connect-Mailbox -Identity 'journalingBox' -Database 'mailbox database name' -User 'journalingBox2'

Result is:

Mailbox "journalingBox" doesn't exist on database "db name".
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (journalingBox:StoreMailboxIdParameter) [Connect-Mailbox], MdbAdminTaskExc
   eption
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=RB-EX2,RequestId=efeb59ff-9a13-4242-998f-01806cb76d15,TimeStamp=18.05.2015 09:36
   :06] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-MdbAdminTaskException] 314B555F,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.MapiTasks.ConnectMailbo
  x
    + PSComputerName        : fqdn

Note: journalingBox was the mailbox which was disabled and enabled.

• Edited by jha.amit6666 20 hours 2 minutes ago

Hi ManU,

I ran

Get-MailboxDatabase | Get-MailboxStatistics | ? { $_.DisconnectReason -ne $null } | fl

to get "Identity", & gave this parameter and value in

Connect-Mailbox -Identity 'identity' -Database 'mailbox database name' -User 'AD Username'

Now the emails are back, but they are in mailbox of newly created AD User. Can we have all the emails to the original mailbox?

• Marked as answer by jha.amit6666 20 hours 1 minutes ago
• Edited by jha.amit6666 19 hours 56 minutes ago

Hi,

Create outlook profile of the user, import all emails, export as pst, import it to new user

Hi ManU,

New-MailboxExportRequest and New-MailboxImportRequest are the commands. Other than this is there some other way, like is there a way to have some parameters in Connect-Mailbox cmdlet to have the emails in the same mailbox? Or some other cmdlet?

• Edited by jha.amit6666 12 hours 30 minutes ago