dema skorlovy
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Archive mailboxes and deleting databases in a DAG
Hello,
I have a DAG Exchange Server 2010 SP3 with databases that housed the local user archives. Today everyone on these servers has been migrated to Office 365. A large number of users have their archive attached to their mailbox in Office 365.
Questions: How to display the archives that still exist and if they are still used?
In case I can delete this database in order not to make any mistakes, what is the steps to follow to properly delete these databases knowing that they are in DAG?
Thanks in advance !
I have a DAG Exchange Server 2010 SP3 with databases that housed the local user archives. Today everyone on these servers has been migrated to Office 365. A large number of users have their archive attached to their mailbox in Office 365.
Questions: How to display the archives that still exist and if they are still used?
In case I can delete this database in order not to make any mistakes, what is the steps to follow to properly delete these databases knowing that they are in DAG?
Thanks in advance !
Amit
Your question is not very clear, if your end goal is to remove db. Make sure you move all mailboxes to office 365. Then you can remove db replicas and then remove the databases.
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Sorry if I wasn't specific.
yes, the goal is to delete the database. this database contained the users' archives. the users are now all on office 365. the users' archives have been migrated to office 365 as well. The goal is to make sure that there are no forgotten archives that have not been migrated for some users.
Thank you Timgreen7077. I will use your order and come back to you with the results.
yes, the goal is to delete the database. this database contained the users' archives. the users are now all on office 365. the users' archives have been migrated to office 365 as well. The goal is to make sure that there are no forgotten archives that have not been migrated for some users.
Thank you Timgreen7077. I will use your order and come back to you with the results.
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I miss stated in my answer, i meant to say if there are NO results returned then there are NO archive mailboxes associated with a user mailbox.
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fine, Timgreen 7077, I get it.
Thank you Amit, excellent KB. I will follow all this to complete my task.
I'll keep you informed. I'll be back at the office on Thursday.^^
Thank you Amit, excellent KB. I will follow all this to complete my task.
I'll keep you informed. I'll be back at the office on Thursday.^^
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Hi Timgreen7077,
I executed the command you gave me and it didn't returned me any results. so it's a good thing that confirms that there are no more mailbox archives attached to users as you told me.
Thank you also for the very interesting link.
I executed the command you gave me and it didn't returned me any results. so it's a good thing that confirms that there are no more mailbox archives attached to users as you told me.
Thank you also for the very interesting link.
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Hi Amit,
I started to plan a procedure to delete archive databases on Exchange servers based on Amit's superb KB.
Thank you for this very good and well done KB.
I started to plan a procedure to delete archive databases on Exchange servers based on Amit's superb KB.
Thank you for this very good and well done KB.
good
Thanks @dema