Change which server mailbox is associated with in Exchange 2007
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Published on 2013-11-10T00:00:24Z
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I have restored and mounted an EDB file onto a new Exchange 2007 Server. However, the old server is still online and although all the mailboxes I need are in the newly-mounted database, in Exchange 2007 System Manager it still shows that the mailbox is associated with the old server.
If I try to "Move" the database it actually tries to copy the files from the old server to the new server, which is not necessary because they are already there - and produces and error about the mailbox on the destination already existing.
How can I simply tell Exchange (AD?) to use the new server to find the mailbox rather than the old?
Edit:
I did the restore by taking the old server offline (turning off all Exchange services), copying EDB file to the new server, restoring it with eseutil
, and mounting it to the new server. I did it this way in part because I didn't know a better way and in part because I couldn't use move-mailbox
as the source location had a horrible Internet connection (which is why Exchange is being moved to the new location). I had to copy the EDB from the old server to a hard disk, go somewhere with a better Internet connection, upload the EDB to the new server.
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