Need to move an Exchange Archive after the users mailbox was moved to a different Exchange site.

[Always_Somethin]

I have two Seperate Enterprise Vault 10.0.4 sites. (NAM & EMEA/APAC)

I have two Seperate Exchange 2010 Sites. (NAM & EMEA/APAC)

We had a user mailboxe moved to a seperate/second Exchange site.

The users archive/mailbox was not disabled for Archiving prior to the move on the original site.

The user was enabled for Archiving in the New Exchage site.

The user can no longer access items vaulted from his original Exchange site/archive.

I cant move the original Archive to the new Exchange site as is still enables for archiving and it thinks the user mailbox is still on the original Exchange server/site.....

I opend a ticket with support but they cant give me a solution at almost 24 hours.

I would think this would have happened before but I cant find a whitepaper to help resolve.

• Short of disabling the mailbox for Archiving in the new site
• moving the mailbox back to the original site
• disable the mailbox for archiving at the original site
• move the mailbox back to the second site
• moving the original archive to the new site.
• And not sure it that will work.

I know I can export the original archive to a PST but that still leaves the stub files in the existing mailbox and legal does not want anyting pulled out of the exchange environment (i understand the export to PST is just making a copy if items in the archive).

Anyone have a process to offer?

It's always something...

[WiTSend]

You should be able to go into SQL (Directory DB) and change the status of the archive.  Then you should be able to do the move.

[Always_Somethin]

Thanks WiTSend, I'll see wht my SQL DB admin can find about the vault in the DB and see if we can find the setting to change.

It's always something...

[Rob_Wilcox1]

... You can also use third party tools to move that archive.

[JimmyNeutron]

^^ heres comes the sales pitch lol

[Rob_Wilcox1]

Not really... Just saying that their are better options out there than Move Archive. 

I also wouldnt suggest direct db manipulation unless Veritas approve it.

you could also go the manual route, and disable in the source, export to PST, copy and import.

Im an ideas person. The fact we've got the best email archive migration product doesn't always come into it

[Always_Somethin]

I started with a SQL query to find informatioon about the archive:

Mailbox name and the exchange info for that archive:

SELECT EME.MbxDisplayName "Mailbox Name",

  ESE.ExchangeComputer "Exchange Server",

       EMS.Name "Exchange Database",

       EME.AdMbxDN "AD Details",

       VSE.VaultStoreName "Vault Store"

FROM   ExchangeMailboxEntry EME,

       ExchangeMailboxStore EMS,

       ExchangeServerEntry ESE,

       Root R,

       Archive A,

       VaultStoreEntry VSE

WHERE  EME.MbxStoreIdentity = EMS.MbxStoreIdentity

  AND  EMS.ExchangeServerIdentity = ESE.ExchangeServerIdentity

  AND  EME.DefaultVaultId = R.VaultEntryId

  AND  R.RootIdentity = A.RootIdentity

  AND  A.VaultStoreEntryId = VSE.VaultStoreEntryId

ORDER BY ESE.ExchangeComputer, EMS.Name, EME.MbxDisplayName

Results were below but Column I & Column CL may be the values i need to minipulate but dont want to risk it.

ExchangeMailboxEntryId

MbxIdentity

LegacyMbxDN

MbxDisplayName

MbxAlias

MbxNTUser

MbxNTDomain

MbxArchivingState

MbxExchangeState

ExchangeMbxType

MbxWarningLimit

MbxSendLimit

MbxReceiveLimit

MbxSize

MbxItemCount

DefaultVaultId

City

Company

Country

Department

EmployeeType

FirstName

LastName

Office

State

Title

UseQuota

LastModified

EnabledPstImport

PolicyEntryId

PSTPolicyEntryId

PolicyTargetGroupEntryId

PolicyTargetMemberEntryId

ADMbxDN

ExchMbxGUID

MbxStoreIdentity

ADMbxFlags

DesktopPolicyEntryId

MbxSuspended

MoveArchiveShortcutSubtask

objectSidIdentity

msExchMasterAccountSidIdentity

MbxStoreIdentity

ADMbxStoreDN

LegacyMbxStoreDN

Name

ServerName

ExchangeServerIdentity

MasterOrAvailabilityGroup

ExchangeServerEntryId

SiteEntryId

ExchangeComputer

ExchangeServerADSPath

ExchangeLegacyDN

ExchangeVersion

ExchangeServicePack

ExchangeServerIdentity

ExchangeServerFQDN

ExchangeServerGCOverride

OrganizationEntryId

ManualAdminSecurityDesc

OverrideFlags

DefVaultStoreEntryId

DefIndexingServiceEntryId

ExchServerVersion

ADExchSvrDN

ExtendedConfigurationData

MbxArchiveScannedUTC

MbxArchiveSubmittedUTC

AddedToEVUTC

ExchangeServerProxyServerOverride

ExchangeServerCertificatePrincipalOverride

MajorVersion

MinorVersion

ExchangeServerAuthenticationOverride

RootIdentity

VaultEntryId

Type

ContainerRootIdentity

OwningTrusteeIdentity

Hidden

ArchiveFolderIdentity

AutoSecurityDescID

ManualSecurityDescID

RootIdentity

VaultStoreEntryId

ArchiveName

ArchiveDescription

ArchiveAdminNote

ArchiveStatus

ArchiveLimitSize

ArchiveLimitOperation

ArchiveLimitStatus

ArchiveNotifyOperation

ArchiveNotifySize

DeleteExpiredItems

DeleteProtected

Structured

ArchiveFull

LocaleId

IndexItemsMode

ConvertedContentMode

IgnoreIndexingPolicy

RetainArchiveHistory

HasHistory

MaximumItemsInIndexVolume

ReadyForIMAP

EnabledForIMAP

ArchiveTypeIdentity

CustomIdentifier

VaultStoreEntryId

VaultStoreName

StorageServiceEntryId

VaultStoreDescription

VaultStoreAdminNote

DatabaseDSN

BackupFlag

SchemaVersion

DeleteExpiredItems

VaultStoreStatus

VaultStoreVaultLimitSize

VaultStoreVaultLimitOperation

VaultStoreType

CatalogueEntryId

SQLServer

SQLProtocol

SQLDSNType

DatabaseName

VaultStoreVaultNotifyOperation

VaultStoreVaultNotifySize

NoJournalBackup

VaultStoreIdentity

SISBoundaryIdentity

SharingLevel

SharingOccured

SharingHistory

BackupModeRefCount

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