Wednesday 9 March 2016

EXCHANGE 2013 RECREATE ARBITRATION MAILBOXES


Get-Mailbox –Arbitration command to see current location of Arbitration mailboxes.

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To recreate the Arbitration Mailboxes we first have to remove everything the accompanying user accounts, which can be found in CN=Users in Active Directory:
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When the user accounts are deleted you can run the Get-Mailbox –Arbitration command again to see if they are really removed.
Setup.exe /PrepareAD /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms command again (from the correct installation media by the way) to recreate the Arbitration Mailboxes:
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The user accounts are now created again, and the next step is to Mail-Enable them:
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Enable-Mailbox –Arbitration –Identity "FederatedEmail.4c1f4d8b-8179-4148-93bf-00a95fa1e042"
Enable-Mailbox –Arbitration –Identity "SystemMailbox{1f05a927-8668-4003-adad-9b80758e86db}"
Enable-Mailbox –Arbitration –Identity "SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e6c29d823ed9}"
Enable-Mailbox –Arbitration –Identity "SystemMailbox{bb558c35-97f1-4cb9-8ff7-d53741dc928c}"
To prevent typos you can also use the following command:
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Get-User | Where {$_.Name –like "SystemMailbox*"} | Enable-Mailbox -Arbitration
Get-User | Where {$_.Name –like "FederatedEmail*"} | Enable-Mailbox –Arbitration
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The DisplayName of the Arbitration Mailbox SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e6c29d823ed9} needs to be changed to “Microsoft Exchange”. This can be achieved using the following command:
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Get-Mailbox –Identity "SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29*" –Arbitration | Set-Mailbox –Arbitration –DisplayName "Microsoft Exchange"
The federation Arbitration Mailbox needs to have a 1MB quota limit set to it, this can be achieved using the following command:
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Get-Mailbox –Arbitration –Identity "FederatedEmail*"} | Set-Mailbox –Arbitration –ProhibitSendQuota 1MB
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The Arbitration Mailboxes are up and running again, you can check using the Get-Mailbox –Arbitration command:
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source:
http://jaapwesselius.com/2015/10/14/exchange-2013-recreate-arbitration-mailboxes/

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