Why is the mailbox still active after deleting the Exchange license

Question

I am organizing old users from tenants and have noticed that many old users without Exchange licenses still have active email addresses. I thought these were soft deleted after 30 days.

Any ideas about why email still exists?

Answer 1

Could be shared mailboxes.

Verify that in the Admin gui or with powershell with get-mailbox and check the recipient type

Answer 2

Hi,@James

Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

Andy's answer is a good one, here's mine:

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