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Disabling User Mailboxes for the Exchange Mailbox Agent Hybrid

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To reduce license usage, you can disable user mailboxes that belong to an AD group or you can disable individual mailboxes.

The following characteristics apply to disabled AD groups and mailboxes:

  • Disabled mailboxes do not consume a license.

  • You cannot run any archiving or cleanup jobs.

  • You can run browse and restore operations.

Before You Begin

Create the Exchange policies.

Procedure

  1. From the CommCell Console, go to Client Computers > client > agent > User Mailbox.

  2. Disable mailboxes in an AD group or individual mailboxes:

    What you are disabling

    Steps

    Mailboxes in an AD group

    1. At the bottom portion of the right pane, select the Auto Discover Association tab.

    2. To discover the group, right-click a group and then select New Association > AD group.

      The Create New Association window appears.

    3. On the Content tab, select Configure and then Click OK.

      The Configure AD Group window appears.

    4. Select the AD Group Name check box and then click Discover.

      A pop-up message appears confirming request. Click Yes.

    5. Select the AD Group from the list and then click OK.

      The AD group appears in AD Group list.

    6. Right-click the group, and then select Disable Archiving.

      On the Auto Discover Association tab, the status of the mailboxes changes to Disabled.

      Once disabled, you must remove the archiving policy from the group.

    Individual mailboxes

    1. At the bottom portion of the right pane, select the Mailboxes tab.

    2. Right-click the mailbox, and then select Disable Archiving.

      The mailbox status is changed to Disabled.

To add back mailboxes to the archiving job, you can click on Enable archiving.