E14: Exchange 2010 Database Portability Recovery

 

 

1. Reference
   
   http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/6ec28ddb-63f3-4b6f-9d75-b0b507f9c0d7/how-to-move-database-using-database-portability-in-exchange-2010?forum=exchange2010
   
   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876926.aspx
   
   http://msexchangeguru.com/2013/04/15/e2010-database-portability/
   
   
   

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2. A offline DB that need to recover on new server
   
   
   
3. Check DB state first
   
   
   
4. Copy DB to a new server. Rename old folder, and create a new folder for the Database
   
   
   
5. Create a database for recovery on new server
   
   
   
   
6. Specific the DB path
   
   
   
7. 
   
   
8. Mount DB
   
   
9. Enable restore on this DB
   
   
   
   
   
10. Dismount DB
    
    
11. Remove new db & logs
    
    
    
12. Remove .chk file
    
    
13. Mount the database
    
    
14. 
    After the database is mounted, modify the user account settings with the Set-Mailbox cmdlet so that the account points to the mailbox on the new mailbox server. To move all of the users from the old database to the new database, use the following syntax.
    
    Get-Mailbox -Database <SourceDatabase> |where {$_.ObjectClass -NotMatch '(SystemAttendantMailbox|ExOleDbSystemMailbox)'}| Set-Mailbox -Database <TargetDatabase>
    
    [PS] C:\>Get-Mailbox -Database BQT-ArchiveIn_201309_R |where {$_.ObjectClass -NotMatch '(SystemAttendantMailbox|ExOleDbSystemMailbox)'}| Set-Mailbox -Database BQT-ArchiveIn_201309_R2
    
15. Open outlook to check mailbox is able to read.