'Re: [ngw] Quick delete?'

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Subject:    Re: [ngw] Quick delete?
From:       "Lilith Calbridge" <lilith () dcccd ! edu>
Date:       2013-07-19 13:43:44
Message-ID: 51E8FC40020000AE001A47EE () dscgwia1 ! dcccd ! edu
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Sigh!  :)  Still going to take quite a while.  :(

Thanks,
Lil

> > > Danita Zanre <dzanre.ngwlist@gmail.com> 7/18/2013 1:46 PM >>>
That might be your best bet then - use your utility to purge everything and then \
delete the users afterwards.

Danita Zanre, Move Out of the Office
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On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:35 PM, "Lilith Calbridge" <lilith@dcccd.edu> wrote:

> And I think I know the mechanism to convert to a Resource but that takes a lot more \
> accumulated time, I think, than waiting for purges.  Plus, I think it requires \
> having to bring the post office down while doing renames, etc.   
> I do have a program that will accept a list of accounts and will sequentially \
> delete/purge the content of each account without deleting the account itself.  \
> Since it runs on my workstation it doesn't impact the server too badly.  And I can \
> run multiple instances of it.  It at least gives me the option to stop if the \
> server is suffering.  :) 
> Thanks,
> Lil
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> > > > Danita Zanre <dzanre.ngwlist@gmail.com> 7/18/2013 1:21 PM >>>
> So, there is a trick to convert a user to a resource - that's the only way they \
> will not be "counted". 
> There is no way to avoid the purging.
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> Danita Zanre, Move Out of the Office
> I love my job, and you can too!
> Tel: (720) 319-7530 - Caledonia Network Consulting
> Tel: (720) 319-8240 - Move Out of the Office 
> danita@caledonia.net | www.moveoutoftheoffice.com/
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> On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:17 PM, "Lilith Calbridge" <lilith@dcccd.edu> wrote:
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> > First off I'd like to say that I've missed this group.  Although I've kept up the \
> > subscription I've been put on other projects and the unread emails in my GW \
> > mailbox now numbers in the thousands.  Mostly my duties have kept me busy with \
> > the Exchange (Office 365) side of our mail system for the moment while it's new \
> > and the learning curve is pretty steep.   
> > AAR, part of what I'm doing is requiring me to delete a large number of GW \
> > Mailboxes, the 4,000 or so that should have been deleted over the years but never \
> > happened, so that we can get our numbers down come September when our licensing \
> > changes and we start paying per account.  So, two things, maybe.   
> > First off, if an account isn't actually being used, is there any way to keep it \
> > from being counted by the Novell tools that do those metrics?  Converting to \
> > External Entity?  Changing Visibility to None? 
> > Second, is there any way to delete accounts without the attendant delete/purge \
> > cycle that tends to bring down the post office if too many are running at the \
> > same time?   
> > Thanks,
> > Lil
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