Friday 5 June 2020

How to move multiple databases with a single command to another mailbox server in Exchange Server 2016

Some time you may have to activate a group of DBs on a server, then you have 2 option to perform this task, 1 is from ECP but it will take some long time if you have some multiple DBs. Second option is to use Exchange management shell, which will save your time and also will perform this task very easily.
So you can perform the following command in exchange management shell.
for example you have 4 DBs, all end with 01 numbers, which you want to be activated on MBS01 server.



Get-MailboxDatabase *601 | Move-ActiveMailboxDatabase -ActivateOnServer MBS01

To verify you can use the following command
Get-MailboxDatabase *601

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxDatabase *1601
Name                           Server          Recovery        ReplicationType
----                           ------          --------        ---------------
HR1601                     MBS01  False           Remote
IT1601                     MBS01  False           Remote
M1601                     MBS01  False           Remote
P1601                     MBS01  False           Remote

So we can see here that all the required DBS are activated on MBS01 with a single command.

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