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exchange online: decommission email accounts
Dear all. I am a little bit new to Exchange email but not emails servers in general. I have had other email servers where, if an email was recieved by the server and there was not an account lin...
Hi,
Seems like you have 2 questions on this post.
1) NDR messages for people who left the organization. Do you have a business require for it? Because if not, if someone is trying to send a message to an account that no longer exists, they will get a NDR message. If you have to address it, you have many ways to do it. Like create a generic account and including the aliases for those people who left. Risk is getting to many junk on it.
Take a look at this post:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/how-to-deal-with-users-leaving-the-organization/ba-p/606759
2) Managing licenses. Some posts.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/manage/assign-licenses-to-users?view=o365-worldwide
Hope that helps.
Seems like you have 2 questions on this post.
1) NDR messages for people who left the organization. Do you have a business require for it? Because if not, if someone is trying to send a message to an account that no longer exists, they will get a NDR message. If you have to address it, you have many ways to do it. Like create a generic account and including the aliases for those people who left. Risk is getting to many junk on it.
Take a look at this post:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/how-to-deal-with-users-leaving-the-organization/ba-p/606759
2) Managing licenses. Some posts.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/manage/assign-licenses-to-users?view=o365-worldwide
Hope that helps.