Managing Exchange 2003 with WMI, Part 1

The Purge and Reconnect methods' roles relate to fixing orphaned mailboxes. (You must handle other mailbox management tasks, such as creating, moving, or deleting an Exchange mailbox, through Collaboration Data Objects for Exchange Management—CDOEXM.) If an administrator uses the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in to delete a user account but doesn't delete the mailbox, the mailbox is left in a disconnected state. After Exchange's Cleanup Agent runs, the mailbox in the Exchange Mailbox store is left without a user assigned to it. At that time, Exchange gives the administrator the chance to physically delete the mailbox from the store, which is the aim of the Purge method, or to reconnect the mailbox to an existing user, which is the aim of the Reconnect method.

The script Reconnect.wsf demonstrates how to use the Reconnect method to reconnect an Exchange mailbox to an existing user account. The structure of Reconnect.wsf is similar to that of AdminNote.wsf. However, slight differences exist. The script header starts with the definition of two constants: cMailboxDisplayName, which specifies the display name of the mailbox to reconnect, and cUserAccount, which specifies the user account to which to reconnect the mailbox. . . .