Exchange 2013 (on prem) how to cancel meetings for deleted user (AD deleted and Exchange)
Denes, Laszlo
Hi Everyone and many thanks in advance as I am stumped.
We had a user who left 2 months ago which is past the auto retention period for soft deletes on Exchange.
We eventually deleted (as per policy) the user account from AD and Exchange (an export of mailbox was done for content), but for some odd reason other users still have recurring calendar meeting entries set by the deleted user and nobody can delete them to recapture that time.
The problem is that AD account and Exchange mailbox are gone and not showing up under deleted users (in Exchange) so there is nothing to attach to so I can cancel those meetings.
Tried some PS commands but no luck so far.
Would greatly appreciate any help.
Laszlo Denes
Technical Analyst Servers
Information Systems
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Michael B. Smith
Remove-CalendarEvents is the cmdlet for this, but it operates against a mailbox.
I honestly don’t know what to do if the mailbox has already been purged.
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Hi Everyone and many thanks in advance as I am stumped.
We had a user who left 2 months ago which is past the auto retention period for soft deletes on Exchange.
We eventually deleted (as per policy) the user account from AD and Exchange (an export of mailbox was done for content), but for some odd reason other users still have recurring calendar meeting entries set by the deleted user and nobody can delete them to recapture that time.
The problem is that AD account and Exchange mailbox are gone and not showing up under deleted users (in Exchange) so there is nothing to attach to so I can cancel those meetings.
Tried some PS commands but no luck so far.
Would greatly appreciate any help.
Laszlo Denes
Technical Analyst Servers
Information Systems
The Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre
650 Church Street, Toronto, ON M4Y 2G5
f: 416-925-3211
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Denes, Laszlo
Cheers Michael…
I don’t understand why an old meeting request series made by this user would still show up if AD account and Exchange account are deleted.
Yeah I would have to restore AD and Exchange accounts which is a huge effort for this…
Laszlo Denes
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Information Systems
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Michael B. Smith
Meeting requests are stored in user’s mailboxes – not just the creator but all attendees. Deleting the user doesn’t delete all those meetings.
(There is a reason for this – imagine an admin assistant that creates lots of standing meetings and then leaves the company. Should those meetings be deleted? Almost certainly not…)
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Jim Kennedy
What about an org wide mailbox search for kind:meetings from the deleted user? But how would the deleted user show on the invite now that they are gone?
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Michael B. Smith
I think the displayName is stored in the mailbox calendar along with the SID. Good idea, it might work.
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Denes, Laszlo
Is there no way to force take over ownership of that meeting somehow?
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I think the displayName is stored in the mailbox calendar along with the SID. Good idea, it might work.
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Michael B. Smith
No. It has to be re-created.
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Denes, Laszlo
HUGE OUCH… hahaha…
So basically a restore of the account in AD and then a restore of the account on Exchange from backups… right?!?! LOL!
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Michael B. Smith
You should be able to mount the database as a recovery database on Exchange and then restore it to any account. (Although naming it the same thing would allow Exchange to soft-match it for you.) No AD account recovery is required.
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