Why does the Exchange mailbox show different sizes when I run 2 different commands on the same mailbox?
For example I'm reorganizing the mailboxes and databases and I run this command below and it shows the mailbox size 4.357GB
>Get-MailboxStatistics auser | ft DisplayName,Database,TotalItemSize,ItemCount,storagelimitstatus
DisplayName Database TotalItemSize ItemCount
----------- -------- ------------- ---------
auser Legal Database 4.357 GB (4,678,566,166 bytes) 57605
So being that it's 4.357 GB I moved it to the 5 GB limit database as shown below, but the size comes up as 5.759 GB.
>New-MoveRequest -Identity auser@domain.com -TargetDatabase "Mailbox 01 Limit Database"
DisplayName Status TotalMailboxSize TotalArchiveSize
----------- ------ ---------------- ----------------
auser Queued 5.759 GB (6,183,689,279 bytes)
So now the user is already over the limit before even being fully copied over to the new database. Which number is true?