Not a problem. It's just another mailbox. :-) Just do it. :-) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 4:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 - moving the default database and system mailboxes
It's the *system* mailbox - all of the other mailboxes have been moved. Kurt On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Am I missing something here? > > You are just gonna move a handful of mailboxes from one mailbox DB to > another, is that right? And then remove the old mailbox DB. > > If I've stated this correctly: Just do it. > > If I have not stated this correctly, please elucidate. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 3:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 - moving the default database and > system mailboxes > > All, > > We've got a 200m default database sitting on a 1tb LUN, and we want to clear > the LUN for use - but don't want to cause any outage for the user. > > I've perused the two following articles: > http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3912.exchan > ge-2010-how-to-delete-the-first-database-and-move-the-system-mailboxes > .aspx > > http://www.careexchange.in/how-to-remove-default-database-in-exchange- > 2010-in-a-recommended-way/ > > and a couple of others, but none of them seem to speak to potential downtime > while the move is happening, either for the mailbox to a new database, or for > the move of the original database itself. > > We can certainly delay the move, but we'd like to get it done soonest, > as this LUN is required for other things we're doing on the SAN> > > Kurt > >
