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Deleting rules for a disabled user account.

Recently our security team asked me if we could delete the rules (server- and client-side) on a mailbox when a user account is disable.  After some research, I found the following utilities, but my conclusion is that there is no easy way of removing rules when a users is disabled.

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Jan 6, 2010 · 1 min read
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Recently our security team asked me if we could delete the rules (server- and client-side) on a mailbox when a user account is disable.  After some research, I found the following utilities, but my conclusion is that there is no easy way of removing rules when a users is disabled.

Options:

  1. Login to the account and delete the rules
  2. Use MFCMAPI.exe (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924297)
  3.  Use Mdbvu32 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320022)

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