Exchange 2010: How to recreate System Mailbox, FederatedEmail & DiscoverySearchMailbox
When we recreate — System Mailbox, FederatedEmail & DiscoverySearchMailbox in Exchange 2010 ?
- * DC crashes
- * If the Default Database is Deleted these maiboxes will go Orphaned
- * System mailboxes go Corrupted
Default
You Could See these (System Mailbox, FederatedEmail & DiscoverySearchMailbox) in Active Directory Users Container by Default
System mailboxes are created by Exchange in the root domain of the Active Directory forest during installation. Users or administrators can’t log on to these mailboxes. System mailboxes are created for Exchange 2010 features such as message approval and Multi-Mailbox Search. This table lists information about system mailboxes as they’re displayed in Active Directory.
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How to Verify these mailboxes are available and its active or not
Running in Exhcange Management Shell
Get-mailbox -arbitration
Should Show up SystemMailbox and FederatedEmail
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If your not Seeing this, It means they are not enabled
how to recreate them and Enable them
For Example I would Delete this Mailboxes from Users Container – in Active Directory Users and Computers
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Now We need the Setup CD inorder to recreate them “Same Version of Setup ”
Open Command Prompt
Browsed into the Setup location
Run Setup.com /prepareAd
This would Create System Mailboxes, FederatedEmail & DiscoverySearchMailbox
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Running Setup.com /Preparead would created them .
But Until you Enable them, They won’t work
Now we got to Collect the SystemMailboxe and FederatedEmail and DiscoverySearchMailbox Exact GUID names inorder to Enable them
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Now I have the values my my Environment
For Example
- System Mailbox GUID values
- SystemMailbox{1f05a927-6a9b-4101-abd2-70838d0c8e86}
- SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e6c29d823ed9}
- FederatedEmail GUID values
- FederatedEmail.4c1f4d8b-8179-4148-93bf-00a95fa1e042
- DiscoverySearchMailbox GUID values
- DiscoverySearchMailbox {D919BA05-46A6-415f-80AD-7E09334BB852}
Now We Got to Enable them - (Real time you got to use your own GUID value)
Enabling System Mailboxes
Enable-Mailbox –Arbitration “SystemMailbox{Guid Value1}”
Enable-Mailbox –Arbitration “SystemMailbox{Guid Value2}”
Enable-Mailbox –Arbitration “FederatedEmail.Guid Value”
Enable-Mailbox – Discovery “DiscoverySearchMailbox {Guid Value}”
For Example I ran-
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Enable-Mailbox –Arbitration “SystemMailbox{1f05a927-6a9b-4101-abd2-70838d0c8e86}”
Enable-Mailbox –Arbitration “SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e6c29d823ed9}”
Enable-Mailbox –Arbitration “FederatedEmail.4c1f4d8b-8179-4148-93bf-00a95fa1e042″
Enable-Mailbox – Discovery “DiscoverySearchMailbox {D919BA05-46A6-415f-80AD-7E09334BB852}”
Now to Verify If you Did the Right thing
Running this – It should show up your System Mailboxes, FederatedEmail
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You learnt how to recreate System Mailbox, FederatedEmail & DiscoverySearchMailbox in Exchange 2010