Deallocating Exchange resources for an organization by using XML

Use the DeallocateOrganization procedure of the Exchange Resource Manager namespace to deallocate storage for an organization. This procedure releases all Exchange resources owned by the organization and makes them available so that they can be provisioned again. All of the mailboxes and public folders allocated from the organization must be deallocated before this call will succeed.

Important

• This procedure does not delete the mailboxes owned by an organization. For more information on deleting all mailboxes for an organization, see Deleting Exchange services by using XML.

This procedure expects to be called with impersonate="1". The procedure impersonates the caller.

Example of a request that calls the DeallocateOrganization procedure

<request>
 <procedure>
   <execute namespace="Exchange Resource Manager" procedure="DeallocateOrganization">
	 <executeData>
	 <organization>LDAP://ou=ExchOrg1,dc=contoso,dc=com</organization>
	 </executeData>
	 <after source="executeData" destination="data" mode="merge" />
   </execute>
 </procedure>
</request>

Input for DeallocateOrganization

The following input is valid for this request:

• LDAP path of the organization.

  In the <organization> element, enter the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) path of the organization whose resources are to be removed from the pool of resources managed by Resource Manager.

  <organization>LDAP://LDAP path of the organization</organization>
  

Typical response for DeallocateOrganization

The response to this procedure does not contain significant data.

Important

• Although Active Directory is not case sensitive for elements such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) path, XML is case sensitive. To ensure that the procedure executes appropriately, specify all tags, elements, and data using uppercase and lowercase letters exactly as shown in the XML examples. For additional guidelines on how to use XML, see the Microsoft Web site (http://www.microsoft.com/).