Outstanding. Thanks. Kurt
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > >
