[Migrated from MSDN Exchange Dev] exchange delete user but when i recreate its not appear

Question

hi,

i delete in exchange an user that i created with existant user in active directory, but when i want to recreate this user its not appear.

but in active directory the user is here.

do you have an idea to reappear the user which is deleted in exchange ?

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Answer 1

When deleting a mailbox from the Exchange server, the user's mailbox and its AD account will be deleted:

This deleted mailbox will become "disable" status which hosted on database(Please note: This disabled mailbox is only kept in the database for 30 days by default, if you cannot find this mailbox with command below, you will cannot recover this mailbox):

If you want to recover this mailbox, you need to recreate this an AD user first, then use command below to reconnect this mailbox to this AD account:

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