I was asked to remove a license from a user who left so we could apply it to a new replacement user. I did as was asked - unlicensed the user, licensed the new user. two days later i have been asked to bring back the old user so we could look at the mailbos, so I re-licensed it, but it looks like the mailbox is being recreated fresh. is there a way to restore the old email or are we out of luck?
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No soft-deleted mailbox after license removal Describes an issue that prevents a user from restoring a deleted mailbox in Microsoft 365. A resolution is provided. simonxjx v-six dcscontentpm ITPro troubleshooting Normal
Exchange Online CSSTroubleshoot benjak, kellybos Exchange Online MET150 3/31/2022 Original KB number: 3158794 When you try to perform a mailbox-restore operation to recover the contents of a deleted mailbox in Microsoft 365, you can't find a soft-deleted mailbox for the account that was deprovisioned. Currently, removing the license leaves the mailbox in
a hard-deleted state. Therefore, the mailbox is not displayed as either Soft Deleted or Inactive. The following command is specific to removing the license in PowerShell: Set-MSOLUserLicense -UserPrincipalName "<Account>" -RemoveLicenses This may leave the mailbox in a disabled state that prevents it from being displayed as either Soft Deleted or
Inactive. In this situation, the following commands won't find the mailbox: Get-Mailbox <Account> -SoftDeletedMailbox
Get-Mailbox <Account> -IncludeInactive When the license is removed from a mailbox without following other deprovisioning steps, this may leave the mailbox in a hard-deleted state. In order to recover the mailbox, the user must relicense the Azure user
object. That will reconnect the mailbox as long as it's within 30 days from the disconnect date. :::image type="content" source="media/no-soft-deleted-mailbox-after-license-removal/assign-license-page.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Assign License page in Microsoft 365.":::titledescriptionauthorms.authormanageraudiencems.topiclocalization_priorityms.customms.reviewerappliestosearch.appveridms.date No soft-deleted mailbox after license removal in Microsoft 365
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If the on-premises account no longer exists and is not listed in the Active Users section of the Microsoft 365 admin center, and the account was deleted less than 30 days earlier, follow these steps:
Sign in to the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Locate Users > Deleted Users.
:::image type="content" source="media/no-soft-deleted-mailbox-after-license-removal/deleted-users-field.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Deleted Users field under the Users tab.":::
Search for the user, and then select the account object.
Select the Restore option.
[!NOTE] The user becomes an active user. The Sync Type is now listed as In cloud instead of Synced with Active Directory.
:::image type="content" source="media/no-soft-deleted-mailbox-after-license-removal/sync-type.png" alt-text="Screenshot shows that the Sync Type is now listed as In cloud.":::
Locate Active Users, and then add an Exchange license for the user.
After some minutes, the mailbox becomes active in Exchange.
When you finish the search and export, run the Remove-Mailbox cmdlet to change the object to a soft-deleted mailbox. The soft-deleted mailbox will be available for 30 days. It can be returned to an active state by using the Undo-SoftDeletedMailbox cmdlet.