successful with warnings I saw another article that stated to re-run PrepareAd http://p2v-to-cloud.blogspot.com/2012/08/error-database-is-mandatory-on.html
any thoughts? From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Exchange] DB is mandatory on usermailbox / autodiscover fail Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 21:03:17 +0000 It always scares me when people say that. If you use exrca.com, what does it say about autodiscover? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 4:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Exchange] DB is mandatory on usermailbox / autodiscover fail going through it as I speak, dont see anything new that hasnt been there before- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Exchange] DB is mandatory on usermailbox / autodiscover fail Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 20:51:40 +0000 What’s in the event viewer? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 4:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Exchange] DB is mandatory on usermailbox / autodiscover fail Hi all, I got call saying ECP show an error of DataBase is mandatory on usermailbox, the only thing they "claimed" to have done was attempt to create a public folder then the error "appeared" this is Ex2013 running on 2012 I saw many of the hits were restore related which in this case it is not I certainly am not going to go the "uninstall exchange " route at its a 200gb store with ~100 boxes I tried to get mailbox -arbitration as per this article http://danblee.com/exchange-2013-error-during-install-database-is-mandatory-on-usermailbox-property-name-database/ and no luck- DB's are mounted, status is healthy, mail is flowing , so i'm kind of stumped. Jean-Paul Natola
