Removing disconnected mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Server 2007 doesn’t allow us to purge the disconnected mailbox. In order to remove one or multiple disconnected mailboxes we can be performing these steps:

Listing all disconnected mailboxes

Get-MailboxStatistics | where-object { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | Select DisplayName,MailboxGuid

 

Removing a single entry

Remove-Mailbox -Database -StoreMailboxIdentity -confirm:$false

 

Removing all users at the same time

$users = Get-MailboxStatistics | where-object { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | Select DisplayName,MailboxGuid

 

Now that we have all disconnected mailboxes in a var, we can run the following cmdlet to remove all of them:

$users | ForEach { Remove-Mailbox -Database "Mailbox Database" -StoreMailboxIdentity $_.MailboxGuid -confirm:$false }

 

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