Can I ‘Shrink’ My Exchange Database?
KB ID 0001706 Problem Saw this asked in a forum today, and my response was; It never gets smaller, if you delete things out of it, it just creates more ‘whitespace’ within the database, unless you; a) Take it offline, and defragment it using eseutil. b) Move the mailboxes out of it, to another database and delete it. Which is true, but even Microsoft say you should not need to defragment a database! Before you do anything...
Exchange – Move ‘ALL’ Mailboxes From One Database to Another
KB ID 0000864 Problem While replacing an Exchange Server on my test network last week, I needed to get all the mailboxes moved across to the new one. Exchange gets upset if you try and delete a mailbox database that has data in it. Solution 1. Launch the Exchange Management Shell > Firstly lets get the names of my Databases, then I can simply copy and paste them into the move mailbox command. Get-MailboxDatabase Get-Mailbox...
Exchange: No Arbitration Mailboxes?
KB ID 0001434 Problem I was doing a ‘mop up’, after an Exchange install problem, (post to follow.) And went to look at the ‘Arbitration’ mailboxes in the clients Exchange Organisation. And they could not be seen? Get-Mailbox | -Arbitration Get-MailboxDatabase | Get-Mailbox -Arbitration Solution In my case, it was because the Exchange server was in a ‘Child Domain’ and the...
Exchange 2016 Install Error ‘Skipping creating Discovery Arbitration Mailbox because of insufficient permission”
KB ID 0001221 Problem Note: Can also be seen on Exchange 2013. While installing a new Exchange 2016 Server into a clients Exchange 2010 infrastructure last week, the setup failed with the following error. A cutdown version of the error; Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info (“Cannot find E-discovery arbitration mailbox with name=$name.”); } } else { write-exchangesetuplog -info “Skipping creating Discovery Arbitration...
Migrate Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 (& 2013)
Part 3 Migrating Certificates and Decommissioning Exchange 2010 KB ID 0000816 Problem Continued from Migration From Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 2 Solution Exchange 2013/2016 Migration Step 8 Migrating Certificates from 2010 to 2016 Only consider doing this if you have a purchased (i.e. NOT using a self signed) certificate on your Exchange 2010 server. Bear in mind if you have the internal FQDN of your Exchange 2010 server as a...