


#Remove mailbox exchange 2010 archive
I will also give attention to the personal archive element found new in Exchange 2010. In this article I would like to explain the procedures involved mailbox recovery, disconnecting or connecting mailboxes to user objects, mailbox retention. For instance, personal archives can have different quota settings than regular mailboxes.

In reality, as you probably know, the personal archive in Exchange 2010 is a special kind of mailbox which gets special treatment. With Exchange 2010 there are some additions to this story because of personal archives. This may prove valuable after accidental deletions or when converting to, or from, a linked mailbox account, where the user accounts resides in one forest and the Exchange mailbox in another forest. Within the retention period, the mailbox can be recovered by reconnecting it to the same or a different user object that has no mailbox connected to it. This provided new capabilities for recovering deleted mailboxes, by accident or on purpose. In Exchange 2000, the mailbox retention period was introduced. With Exchange 5.5 server you had to restore the entire mailbox store on a recovery server and then had to perform an export and import exercise using PST files and a newly created mailbox. It is easy, for example, to forget how tiresome it used to be to recover deleted mailboxes. + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 6B178A33.Connecting the Disconnected in Exchange 2010 - Simple Talk Skip to contentĪfter working with recent versions of Exchange server, you might forget what life was like back in the early days of Exchange. You quickly get accustomed to functionality as if it were always there. C:\>Remove-MailboxDatabase -Identity db1 C:\>Get-MailboxStatistics -Database db1ĭisplayName ItemCount StorageLimitStatus LastLogonTime C:\>Get-Mailbox -Database db1 -Arbitration + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 6B178A33.RemoveMailboxDatabase + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (db1:DatabaseIdParameter), AssociatedUserMailbo圎xistException Mailbox plans should be moved to another server to do this, run the command Set-MailboxPlan -Database. If this is the last server in the organization, run the command Disable-Mailbox -Arbitration -DisableLastArbitrationMailboxAllowed to disable the arbitration mailbox. To disable an archive mailbox so you can delete the mailbox database, run the command Disable-Mailbox -Archive.Īrbitration mailboxes should be moved to another server to do this, run the command New-MoveRequest. To disable a non-arbitration mailbox so that you canĭelete the mailbox database, run the command Disable-Mailbox. To get a list of all arbitration mailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database -Arbitration. To get a list of archive mailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database -Archive. To get a list of all mailbox plans in this database, run the command Get-MailboxPlan. To get a list of all mailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox -DatabasĮ. This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, or arbitration mailboxes.
