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Cancel mailbox moves already in progess from within Exchange 2007 management shell ?
I started moving a database of mailboxes from an old 2003 Exchange server to a newer 2007 Exchange server. At the pace it's going, I'm not certain it will finish all the mailboxes before people start coming back into the office in the morning.
I started the moves from within the Exchange Management Shell. Is there a specific command I use to stop them ? My understanding of the mailbox moves is that Exchange is literally copying the contents from one server to another, for redundancy in case of power loss, etc, in case a mailbox was not finished copying.
Could I just restart the server early in the morning to stop the rest of the moves ? Some other way ?
THANKS!
I started the moves from within the Exchange Management Shell. Is there a specific command I use to stop them ? My understanding of the mailbox moves is that Exchange is literally copying the contents from one server to another, for redundancy in case of power loss, etc, in case a mailbox was not finished copying.
Could I just restart the server early in the morning to stop the rest of the moves ? Some other way ?
THANKS!
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Thanks for the comments and info.
I only want to stop them because we have over 1000, good paying, hard working franchise owners that have about 1 GB mailboxes. It would be possible financial loss for them not to have email access during M-F business hours, so we're trying to minimize their email downtime as much as possible.
In the Move Mailbox wizard GUI, there is a check box to "stop processing after X amount of hours". Is there an equivalent or similar type CLI switch / parameter I could have used ?
Thanks again.
I only want to stop them because we have over 1000, good paying, hard working franchise owners that have about 1 GB mailboxes. It would be possible financial loss for them not to have email access during M-F business hours, so we're trying to minimize their email downtime as much as possible.
In the Move Mailbox wizard GUI, there is a check box to "stop processing after X amount of hours". Is there an equivalent or similar type CLI switch / parameter I could have used ?
Thanks again.
as far as I know there is nothing like that in the powershell.
http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/moving-mailboxes-exchange-2007-part1.html
That's about the only other thing I could find. Don't know if that helps or not.
That's about the only other thing I could find. Don't know if that helps or not.
Maybe you can kill the process and then take manual PST's and move over to the new server .... but reverting back is not possible
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Get-Mailbox –Database “DCEXCH\First Storage Group\Mailbox Store (DCEXCH)” | Move-Mailbox –TargetDatabase “E2K7\First Storage Group\Mailbox Database” –MaxThreads 20