Disabled accounts quandry

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Colin Chaplin

Hi All

I have a scenario where I've got hundreds of disabled accounts that have
never been logged into. I think they've come across from the NT4/ Exchange
5.5 migration.

At first it would seem a simple act and low risk act to delete them.

However, I believe they exist because they are mailbox enabled and various
people have various permissions to access these mailboxes. I have no doubt
there are some truly dead accounts.

Any idea how I can figure this out (unfortunately, a few system wide
programs login to each account via MAPI so no details that way)

Am I missing something obvious ? If an account has never been logged into,is
locked out and password is expired, it can still be used as a mailbox by
others with the appropriate permissions ?

Best I can come up with is to get the list of 'never logged in' accounts,
look at the size and amount of email in them and use that to manually figure
out what's dead. But that really sucks.

Thanks all

Colin
 
Hi All

I have a scenario where I've got hundreds of disabled accounts that have
never been logged into. I think they've come across from the NT4/ Exchange
5.5 migration.

At first it would seem a simple act and low risk act to delete them.

However, I believe they exist because they are mailbox enabled and various
people have various permissions to access these mailboxes. I have no doubt
there are some truly dead accounts.

Any idea how I can figure this out (unfortunately, a few system wide
programs login to each account via MAPI so no details that way)

Am I missing something obvious ? If an account has never been logged into,is
locked out and password is expired, it can still be used as a mailbox by
others with the appropriate permissions ?

Best I can come up with is to get the list of 'never logged in' accounts,
look at the size and amount of email in them and use that to manually figure
out what's dead. But that really sucks.

Thanks all

Colin
Click to expand...

They will have come accross from your 5.5 to 2000 migration.
See:
http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?qu=associated+external+account
for some information on what you have. If you have user accounts that
have rights on mailboxes "owned" by the accounts that are there and
disabled you can rehome the mailboxes with the right account and then
remove the disabled account.
 
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