Comments on: Exchange 2013 Database Removal Error: “This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes” https://practical365.com/exchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes/ Practical Office 365 News, Tips, and Tutorials Sun, 04 Sep 2022 07:08:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: How to Move an Exchange Server 2013 Database to a New Location – Nhật Ký https://practical365.com/exchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes/#comment-242617 Sun, 04 Sep 2022 07:08:18 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=5852#comment-242617 […] Remove the database and create a new one in the desired path […]

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By: Bob https://practical365.com/exchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes/#comment-237232 Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:20:35 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=5852#comment-237232 I tried everything i could for removing mailbox database in Exchange2013 including deleting of AuditLog, Archive, Arbitration, Public Folder, Monitoring mailboxes but still cant remove databases.
what else do i have to check for

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By: Mike https://practical365.com/exchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes/#comment-236407 Fri, 27 Aug 2021 14:07:18 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=5852#comment-236407 In reply to Tim Schoeller.

Thanks for this!

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By: Steve https://practical365.com/exchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes/#comment-236351 Sun, 22 Aug 2021 17:30:11 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=5852#comment-236351 In reply to Shaun Raven.

Or.. just use Set-ADServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $True first to make it search the entire forest.

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By: Shaun Raven https://practical365.com/exchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes/#comment-234022 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:12:54 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=5852#comment-234022 One thing to bear in mind. If you DO have a multi AD domain environment, don’t forget to use -domaincontroller on get-mailbox requests and run for each AD domain you control – you may find additional mailboxes you’ve missed!

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By: Tyler https://practical365.com/exchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes/#comment-229103 Wed, 01 Apr 2020 15:25:34 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=5852#comment-229103 In reply to Andrew Suthanah.

Dude you saved me from pulling what hair I have let out. Thanks for this post!!!

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By: Marcina https://practical365.com/exchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes/#comment-221508 Thu, 01 Aug 2019 15:59:24 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=5852#comment-221508 To remove the requests I used:

(Get-MailboxExportRequest | ?{ $_.RequestQueue -eq “DatabaseName” })|%{Remove-MailboxExportRequest -identity $_.identity }

(Get-MailboxImportRequest | ?{ $_.RequestQueue -eq “DatabaseName” })|%{Remove-MailboxExportRequest -identity $_.identity }

Then, for good measure, I ran:
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database “DatabaseName | Where { $_.DisconnectReason -ne $null } | ForEach { Update-StoreMailboxState -Database $_.Database -Identity $_.MailboxGuid -Confirm:$false }

Marcina

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By: Marcina https://practical365.com/exchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes/#comment-221507 Thu, 01 Aug 2019 15:53:43 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=5852#comment-221507 OK, just dealt with this on Exchange 2013 and all “system” mailboxes mentioned above were removed yet I couldn’t’ remove the database. I found out that there were some mailbox export and import requests to previous mailboxes on the database – revealed by:

(Get-MailboxExportRequest | ?{ $_.RequestQueue -eq “DatabaseName” })
and
(Get-mailboxImportRequest | ?{ $_.RequestQueue -eq “DatabaseName” })

Once those were removed, I was able to delete the database without issue.

Hope that helps!

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By: James Collins https://practical365.com/exchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes/#comment-199527 Fri, 05 Apr 2019 07:38:16 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=5852#comment-199527 Hello Paul – I love all of your material, thanks for all the help I have received from reading your articles. I have 16 exchange 2013 servers at CU21 and 3 – 2007 servers that still need to be decommissioned. We have one DAG in US, and one in UK. CAS is load balanced at https://mail.ourdomain.com/owa. There is also an Exchange mgmt server in the US and UK, just for /ecp, as I have -AdminEnabled $False at https://mail.ourdomain.com/ecp. I am currently migrating from distributed exchange servers per site, to a central Data Center. I have de-commissioned 3 servers already, but the 4th and the very first 2013 exchange server in our org will not uninstall. It keeps re-creating a health monitoring mailbox with a DB guid for a DB that no longer exists. When I shut this server down as a test, and I go to login to https://exchangemgmt_uk/ecp (one of the mgmt servers) when I login with my admin account, I get a blank screen! They are completely different servers. This server was in a DAG with another server that is currently shutdown, pending an uninstall. Please help, or I may have to open a ticket with M$. -Thanks

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By: andrew https://practical365.com/exchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes/#comment-160689 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:11:37 +0000 https://www.practical365.com/?p=5852#comment-160689 The problem we have is that someone has manually removed the mailbox database file before removing it from Exchange.
I have managed to relocate all mailboxes except the auditlog mailbox.
Do you know how to create this on another mailbox database and tell Exchange it no longer exists on the original database?

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