Haven't moved the system mailbox yet. And yes, we're going to kill the old database once the system mailbox has been moved to a new (much smaller!) database on the new LUN.
Probably do this tomorrow morning - working on a problem with a switch at the moment. Kurt On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 4:57 PM, ccollins9 <ccolli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have you moved the system mailboxes? If so, like Michael said, you can just > remove it, but exchange won't let you until the system mailboxes are moved > > On Monday, January 25, 2016, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Outstanding. Thanks. >> >> Kurt >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com> >> wrote: >> > Not a problem. It's just another mailbox. :-) Just do it. :-) >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com >> > [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 4:25 PM >> > To: excha...@lists.myitforum.com >> > 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 >> > <mich...@smithcons.com> 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: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com >> >> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> >> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 3:51 PM >> >> To: excha...@lists.myitforum.com >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> >
