Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Topic Last Modified: 2012-07-23

You can disable Unified Messaging (UM) for a UM-enabled user. When you disable a user for Unified Messaging, the user is no longer able to use the UM features found in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. If you prefer, you can keep the UM settings for the user after the user is disabled.

Looking for other management tasks related to UM users? Check out Managing Unified Messaging Users.

Prerequisites

Use the EMC to disable Unified Messaging for a user

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "UM mailboxes" entry in the Unified Messaging Permissions topic.

  1. In the console tree, click Recipient Configuration.

  2. In the result pane, select the user whose mailbox you want to disable for Unified Messaging.

  3. In the action pane, click Disable Unified Messaging.

  4. In the confirmation dialog box, click Yes to confirm that Unified Messaging will be disabled for the user.

Use the Shell to disable Unified Messaging for a user

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "UM mailboxes" entry in the Unified Messaging Permissions topic.

This example disables Unified Messaging for the user tonysmith@contoso.com but keeps the UM mailbox settings.

Copy Code
Disable-UMMailbox -Identity tonysmith@contoso.com -KeepProperties False

For more information about syntax and parameters, see Disable-UMMailbox.

Other Tasks

After you disable Unified Messaging for a user, you may also want to: