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gockenbr's avatar
gockenbr
Level 3
14 years ago

Decommissioning Exchange server from EV

We recently migrated to Exchange 2010 from 2007 and we are to the point of decommissioning our old Exchange 2007 server as all mailboxes have been migrated to 2010 server. I have been following the instructions listed here http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH50256 however when running the SQL queries to determine if any mailboxes are still active on the old Exchange server its showing there are 170. 

All the mailboxes have been migrated to the new server. When I go to the synchronization tab of the Exchange mailbox archiving task for the new server or old server and try doing selected mailboxes it show no mailboxes available. What am I missing? How do I get these mailbox archives to point at the new server so I can remove the old.

 

Thanks,

Brad

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  • MarkBarefoot's avatar
    MarkBarefoot
    14 years ago

    Did you run this part of the TN?  

     

    For EV versions 7.0 and later, run the Exchange Provisioning Task using the VAC, then run the Exchange Synchronization process and confirm that there are no pending mailboxes (See Step 4).
     

  • TonySterling's avatar
    TonySterling
    Moderator
    14 years ago

    Can you run these and report the results back

    USE EnterpriseVaultDirectory

    SELECT MbxArchivingState, count(MbxArchivingState)
    FROM   ExchangeMailboxEntry
    WHERE ExchangeServerIdentity = 'Step3_Result'

    GROUP BY MbxArchivingState

    and also

    USE EnterpriseVaultDirectory

    SELECT MbxExchangeState, count(MbxExchangeState)
    FROM   ExchangeMailboxEntry
    WHERE ExchangeServerIdentity = 'Step3_Result'

    GROUP BY MbxExchangeState

  • gockenbr's avatar
    gockenbr
    Level 3
    14 years ago

    Those queries didn't work so I ran the following to try to obtain what you were looking for:

     

    I ran - 
     
    USE EnterpriseVaultDirectory
    SELECT MbxArchivingState, count(MbxArchivingState)
    FROM ExchangeMailboxEntry EME
    INNER JOIN ExchangeMailboxStore EMS ON EME.MbxStoreIdentity = EMS.MbxStoreIdentity
    INNER JOIN ExchangeServerEntry ESE ON ESE.ExchangeServerIdentity = EMS.ExchangeServerIdentity
    WHERE ESE.ExchangeServerIdentity = 3
     
    GROUP BY MbxArchivingState
     
    and it produced 
    MbxArchivingState (No column name)
    0 108
    1 60
    2 1
    3 1

    And I ran - 

     

    USE EnterpriseVaultDirectory
    SELECT MbxExchangeState, count(MbxExchangeState)
    FROM ExchangeMailboxEntry EME
    INNER JOIN ExchangeMailboxStore EMS ON EME.MbxStoreIdentity = EMS.MbxStoreIdentity
    INNER JOIN ExchangeServerEntry ESE ON ESE.ExchangeServerIdentity = EMS.ExchangeServerIdentity
    WHERE ESE.ExchangeServerIdentity = 3
     
    GROUP BY MbxExchangeState
     
    and it produced - 
    MbxExchangeState (No column name)
    0 117
    1 10
    2 43

    Please advise.

    -Brad

  • TonySterling's avatar
    TonySterling
    Moderator
    14 years ago

    Okay, so here is what those mean:

    MbxExchangeState
     0 = NORMAL, 1 = DELETED, 2 = HIDDEN

    MbxArchivingState
     0 = NONE, 1 = ENABLED, 2 = DISABLED

    In the column LegacyMbxDN are the entries prefixed with something like this? (MARKED @ 00:00:00 99/99/99).  If yes, you can just delete those rows.

  • Steve_Bally's avatar
    Steve_Bally
    Level 4
    14 years ago

    All,

    I am in the same boat with the migrations, but we know for a fact that there are archives that are orphaned with no active mailbox.

    My question is will the archives still be accessible to accounts that have been granted rights, even though the archive is pointing to the old exchange server that is goint to be removed?

    Is there a procedure to point the orphaned archives to the new exchange server for access only, no archiving of course?

    Regards,

    Steve

  • MarkBarefoot's avatar
    MarkBarefoot
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    Did you run this part of the TN?  

     

    For EV versions 7.0 and later, run the Exchange Provisioning Task using the VAC, then run the Exchange Synchronization process and confirm that there are no pending mailboxes (See Step 4).
     

  • gockenbr's avatar
    gockenbr
    Level 3
    14 years ago

    I did run the provisioning task and sync process but with no change. After doing some more digging I looked at the provisioning task report and server event logs. I found a couple of issues. First was the throttling script was run but not on the right user. Minor mistake but one that was fixed.

    The next thing found was that there was no target(s) set for any of the provisioning groups. Not sure how the targets got removed but at any rate I added back in the Exchange organization and re-ran the provision task and sync process. After doing that the list of users shrunk down to 32 from the 170 that were on the old originally. I did some more verification and it appears that all the remaining users were old users that no longer exist in AD.

    I found the following article  - http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH53096 which talked about how to remove the mailboxes from EV that no longer have a provisioning group. Now that the row from the DB have been deleted the Query comes back with nothing. So I'm now working on removing the old server from EV.

    Thanks for all you help on this. This has been resolved.

    Thanks,

    Brad

  • gockenbr's avatar
    gockenbr
    Level 3
    14 years ago

     

    Steve,

    I found the following article  - http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH53096 which talked about how to remove the mailboxes from EV that no longer have a provisioning group. After figuring out what mailboxes were orphaned I went into the DB and removed them. I can't however answer whether or not you'll still be able to access the archives because most of my users mailboxes aren't archived and all that I deleted contained no items. I think you will be able to though as the archives (though they contain nothing) still show up. Don't quote me on that though.

    Thanks,

    Brad