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Is it safe to delete an exchange database with ADSI edit?
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At some point in the past a database called Arbitration was created in our Exchange environment. Our current installation is Exchange 2016. If we go to the Exchange Admin Center and go to Server, then databases, the list is blank. If we run Get-MailboxDatabase in the Exchange Management Shell we get an error...
"The Exchange server for the database object "Arbitration" wasn't found in Active Directory Domain Services. The object may be corrupted."
I can find this Arbitration database in ADSI Edit, but it is pointing to an old server that was decommissioned and recycled. Is it safe to delete it in ADSI or to change the sever it's pointing to in ADSI, to one of our current servers? Is it better to delete something like this or try to get it working again. I'm assuming with the errors and the fact that it has been pointing to a server that is not in service for years that the Arbitration database isn't working or doing it's job. And help or advice would be appreciated. Oh, and we do have the arbitration mailboxes and they look normal as far as I can tell.
Sorry, I received a 404 page not found error when I first created my question. I didn't see it show up for a few hours, so I created this questions. Now I see both questions, so this one can be ignored.