The soft deleted mailbox has been deleted using the Remove-Mailbox cmdlet with the PermanentlyDelete parameter in Exchange Online PowerShell. All mailbox content such as emails, contacts, and files will be permanently deleted. If in the 30 days time period a new Azure AD user is synchronized from the original on-premises recipient account with the same ExchangeGuid or ArchiveGuid, and that new account is licensed for Exchange Online, this results in a hard deletion of the original user mailbox. The user mailbox is now soft-deleted in Exchange Online and stays in the soft deleted state for 30 days. The user mailbox's associated user account has been hard-deleted in Azure AD. The user mailbox has been soft-deleted for more than 30 days, and the associated Azure AD user has been hard-deleted.
Hard-deleted user mailboxesĪ hard-deleted user mailbox is a mailbox that has been deleted in the following cases: If in the 30-day time period a new Azure AD user is synchronized from the original on-premises recipient account with the same ExchangeGuid or ArchiveGuid, this will result in an ExchangeGuid validation conflict error.Ĭheck out Overview of inactive mailboxes for more info about creating an inactive mailbox by placing a Litigation Hold on a mailbox before deleting it.
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However, if you remove the user's license prior to removing the user from the recycle bin, the user will not go into a soft-deleted user mailbox state. If you run the Azure cmdlet Remove-MsolUser with the -RemoveFromRecycleBin parameter in order to remove a user from the Azure AD recycle bin, it will always put an existing Exchange Online mailbox associated with the Azure AD user in a soft-deleted state, as long as the user's license was not removed.