Exchange 2010 enabled user account for a linked mailbox
Hi
In Exchange 2010
I have a few mailboxes which has been migrated in a cross forest migration. some mailboxes is displayed as Linked, and they have a LinkedMasterAccount set, however the useraccount in the same forest as the mailbox is enabled, and it seems to that users
logon adn use the mailbox in the new domain without any problem.
Question which consequence is there for this?
- can the LinkedMasterAccount in the old forest still access the mailbox?
- will there be any issues in the new forest?
- Should I clean this up somehow? - And how?
In advance thanks for your help.
/Ruben
May 2nd, 2012 8:39am
There could be multiple reasons, in cross forest moves if you did the mailbox move before migrating the account via ADMT it will show up as linked. Possibly you mismatched some steps on some accounts. I ran across this with some users but only during the
beginning of the mgiration. I know I was trying different order of steps in the beginning of my migration because there was advantages and disadvantages of migrating the mailbox before migrating the account or after migrating the account. Just convert the
mailbox, there are no ramifications. You can also manually edit the attributes but only if you find that you can't convert it normally via the shell.
Recipient Display Type = msExchRecipientDisplayType
Recipient Type Details = msExchRecipientTypeDetails
Set-Mailbox user1 -Type regular
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May 2nd, 2012 2:01pm
You can try using following script to disconnect the linked mailbox and convert it to user mailbox using script mentioned in this article.
http://messagingserversupport.com/2011/10/25/disconnectreconnect/
To Reconnect User mailbox.
#To disconnect and reconnect the user mailbox. It will copy the proxyaddresses, Mailbox permissions
$i = $null
$i =@()
$i +=Hasnain.Shaikh
foreach ($a in $i)
{
###############################################
$a | out-host
$gm = get-mailbox $a | select *
$gms = get-mailboxstatistics $a | select *
$gmp = get-mailboxpermission $a | select *
$gm
$gms
$gmp
$gadp
disable-mailbox $gm.alias -confirm:$false
clean-mailboxdatabase $gm.database
start-sleep 90
connect-mailbox $gm.exchangeguid -database $gm.database -Alias $gm.mailnickname -user $gm.samaccountname -DomainController DC1.Ferrari.com
set-mailbox $gm.identity -emailaddresspolicyenabled $false
set-mailbox $gm.identity -emailaddresses $gm.emailaddresses
############################################
}
This should work for you. After modifying the recipient type details Please run the following shell command and check the linked master account value
Get-Mailbox -identity "Mailbox" | fl LinkedMasteraccount
If you find it shows the linked master account that means, User from the account forest can still access the mailbox.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Hasnain Shaikh| My blogs:
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May 2nd, 2012 4:10pm
Hi
If other's advice is helpful to your case. Please mark his answer.Terence Yu
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May 9th, 2012 3:48am