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exchange, mailbox, powershell

I need to make sure 2 users mailbox are homed on a particular mailbox server

for ex. user1 malbox is to be homed on mbx1 server
user2 mailbox to be homed on mbx2 server

is there any powershell command I can use

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pramod1

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I didn't get the last one correctly, we are on exchange 2016 environment.

so let us say if I want to move user 1 which is on db1 database on mbxserver1 and want to move

to db2 database on mbxserver2 , can you please correct below command

does it look like this

New-MoveRequest "<DescriptiveName>"] -Identity <user1> [<-ArchiveOnly | -PrimaryOnly>] [-TargetDatabase <db2>] [-ArchiveTargetDatabase<DatabaseIdentity>] [-Priority <PriorityValue>] [-BadItemLimit <Value>] [-AcceptLargeDataLoss]

is this correct command?

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Get-Mailbox -identity User1 | New-Moverequest -targetdatabase db2

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pramod1

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last question, thank you for above
we have some mailbox databases like db1.. db80 spread across 4 exchange servers. ( mbx1, mbx2, mbx3, mbx4)
I need to failover all the databases from mbx1 and mbx2 to mbx3 and mbx4
we are doing failover exercise.
all 4 servers are in same dag01 , same active directory site.
On mbx1 I if I use move-activemailboxdatabase - server mbx2, will it move all the databases ?

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pramod1

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so this command if I run on mbx1, it moves all db's on mbx1 to other mbx server?

or should I put the target server instead?

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pramod1

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so cant I run this on mbx1

Move-ActiveMailboxDatabase -ActivateOnServer MBX2 ?

pramod1

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and so what happens with mailboxes homed which are on active mailbox database that will also get moved?

we want to sure mbx1 is not doing anything as we want to put that server in maint. mode during switch over