Disable-Mailbox custom task (Exchange 2013)

Question

I have been testing different methods to do this with a powershell script, and it doesn't seem like the most reliable method with my limited PowerShell scripting capabilities. I was wondering if anyone has a script or a method to automate disabling an exchange mailbox as a custom task so we don't have to go to the user account > Exchange Tasks > Delete Mailbox (I'm aware that this does not automatically delete and is actually a disable mailbox task).

Ideally we would be able to just leverage that Exchange Tasks > Delete Mailbox task as a custom task for automated user deprovisioning.

Thanks!
Chris

Answer 1

Hello,

Use the following PowerShell script:

$Context.TargetObject.DeleteMailbox()

Comments

Thanks, that should be super useful and simple. However when running that against a user with a mailbox I get the following error.

""Closing remote server shell instance failed with the following error message : The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic."

Is this an exchange error or an ADAxes error?

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Hello,

The error occurrs when trying to connect to your Exchange Server. What about other Exchange Tasks in the AD domain of the user: do they return the same error or not? What about viewing the user's Exchange Properties in Adaxes?

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I was able to run the Delete Mailbox command from the Exchange Tasks menu of the user without error and I can view the Exchange Properties of users.

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For further troubleshooting, provide the following details:

1. What version of Exchange are you using?

2. Did you add anything to the script or you used only the line we provided?

3. Enable tracing of commands sent to Exchange Servers, execute the Delete Mailbox command from the Exchange Tasks menu, run the sript and then send the log file to our Support email (support@adaxes.com). For information on how to do that, see the following help article: http://www.adaxes.com/help/?HowDoI.Perf ... uests.html.

4. Check user account specified during the domain registration. To do so:

   • Launch Adaxes Administration Console.
   • Expand Adaxes service node and then expand Active Directory node.
   • Right-click the domain and click Change Logon Information.
     
   • Check roles assigned for the user in Exchange. To do so, check the following article: http://msexchangeguru.com/2015/12/18/rbac-2016/.

5. Send a copy of Adaxes Event Log to our Support email.

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Hello,

Use the following PowerShell script:

$Context.TargetObject.DeleteMailbox()

Looks like this actually did end up working, I'm not sure what was going on in our environment, but this did the trick. After enabling logging and trying this again the script worked.

Thanks so much