I had this same problem moving from an NT4/EX55 server to a new WIN2k/EX55 server using move mailbox. After backing up the affected mailboxes with EXMERGE, I tried moving one back to the old server. If I remember correctly, the move mailbox function saw the bogus empty mailbox on the old server and deleted it (and then didn't bother moving it because of the error). This happened to about 5 mailboxes out of 250.
Tom -----Original Message----- From: Ben Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:49 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Mailbox moves completed, but.... First, even though these mailboxes are duplicated, is the user able to open it ok and access all their items? If so, maybe just run the Cleanup Agent on the old server. Another suggestion might be to try and move the mailbox back. It should error out, and may remove the orphaned item for you. If it works, then check the new server and see if it shows up. If not, move it back to the new server. Have you checked Technet (KB) at all? Orphaned Mailbox maybe? Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner & White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -----Original Message----- From: Mitchell Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Thursday, September 18, 2003 5:30 PM Posted To: Exchange (Swynk) Conversation: Mailbox moves completed, but.... Subject: Mailbox moves completed, but.... Good afternoon, I have completed moving 1700+ mailboxes from one server to the other. We are using Outlook 98 Exchange Windows 2000. After the moves were completed I have a few stray mailboxes that are hanging around that are duplicated on the two servers. Under total K they show 0K, even though the mailbox on the correct server (the one moved to) show the correct space 58,098K. I am afraid if we delete the mailbox on the almost empty server, we will delete the real mailbox. So we don't want to do that. We could dump the mailbox to a PST, delete the mailbox and restore the mailbox, but that would cause problems because all communications to the old mailbox would be severed and people couldn't do replies to the eMAILs that are sitting in the mailbox. Meetings couldn't be canceled. What a quandary. What do we do? Just turn off the server and clean it off.. I don't think so. Thanks for any help you might have. Regards, Mike Mitchell Systems email Administrator Alverno Information Services * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *:(317) 783-9341 EXT. 6211 "Education is when you read the fine print, experience is what you get when you don't!" - Pete Seeger _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
