How to move System Mailboxes

Getting rid of the old mailbox database? Before you delete the old one, you have to move the system related mailboxes to the new one. This is how you do it on Exchange Server 2010;

Go to Powershell on your Exchange Server and enter:

• Get-Mailbox -database YOUROLDDBNAME -Arbitration

 

You can see the entry in the red box.

 

• Simply enter the following command which will start the move process

          Get-Mailbox -database YOUROLDDBNAME -Arbitration | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase YOURNEWDBNAME

 

 

• You can monitor the process on EMC Move Request page

• Since the mailbox is a small one, it would take less then a minute to be completed. Afterwards right click the request and select "Clear Move Request" to finish the job.