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Removing license from user, what gets removed and how quickly (returing staff member)
Well, you've got to be able to place a hold on a mailbox before it can become inactive, so that means E3 or better.
Are there any methods that allow you to remove the licenses and have the mailbox content available for recovery for a set time (let's say 5 months) and if not recovered its just auto-deleted?
Anthony LeongI've just seen this thread and wanted to let you know about a way round losing a mailbox after losing licence. Basically you convert the mailbox to a Shared Mailbox and this will then maintain the mailbox for as long as you have the underlying AD identity. Similarly, if you have retention perdiods set for Exchange, the actual content of the mailbox will be retained (without the structure). What some customers do is keep all disabled AD accounts for 6 months after which they are all deleted (some keep them forever), if the mailbox has been converted to Shared then this will stay around until the AD account is deleted (so 6 months).
I hope this makes sense.