Exchange Mailbox Move PowerShell Commands
Move the user mailbox to Database DB01
New-MoveRequest -Identity ‘[email protected]’ -TargetDatabase “DB01”
New-MoveRequest -Identity ‘[email protected]’ -TargetDatabase “DB01” -BadItemLimit 100
Move the bulk users mailbox to Database DB01
Create CSV file having the email address of the users and name it as “EmailAddress.csv”
ForEach ($User in Get-Content “C:\temp\EmailAddress.csv”){ New-MoveRequest -Identity $user -TargetDatabase “DB01”}
To suspend specific user Mailbox move request
Suspend-MoveRequest -Identity ‘[email protected]’
To suspend all the move request
Get-MoveRequest -MoveStatus InProgress | Suspend-MoveRequest
Resume Failed Requests
Get-MoveRequest -resultsize unlimited -MoveStatus Failed | Resume-MoveRequest
Get Failed Moves and resume move requests
Get-MoveRequest -resultsize unlimited -MoveStatus Failed | Resume-MoveRequest
Get Autosuspended Moves and resume move requests
Get-MoveRequest -resultsize unlimited -MoveStatus Autosuspended | Resume-MoveRequest
Mailbox Move Request Reports – Get detailed info for moved mailbox
Get-MoveRequest | Get-MoveRequestStatistics | Select DisplayName, Status, TotalItemSize, TotalMailboxItemCount, PercentComplete, BytesTransferred, ItemsTransferred
Mailbox Move Request Reports – Calculating the Total Mailbox Size moved
$total = Get-MoveRequest | Get-MoveRequestStatistics | Measure-Object TotalMailboxSize -Sum | select -expand sum
[Math]::Round($total /1gb,2)
Get a count of all mailboxes in database (per DB)
Get-mailboxdatabase -identity <database name> | Get-Mailbox -resultsize unlimited | Group-Object -Property:Database | FT name,count -AutoSize
Use this command to view how many move requests are in the queue to be moved:
(Get-MoveRequest -MoveStatus Queued).count
Find the number of Move requests that haven’t completed:
(Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited | Get-moverequeststatistics| where {$_.Status -notlike “completed*”}).count
Get Good Mailbox Move information for Moves in Progress
Get-moverequest -MoveStatus InProgress | Get-moverequeststatistics| ft DisplayName,PercentComplete,TotalMailboxSize,Bytes* -AutoSize
Get Mailbox Move information by BATCH NUMBER
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited |get-moverequeststatistics |where ({$_.Batchname -like “acct” -and $_.Status -ne “completed”})| sort-object -Property Status -descending | ft Displayname, status, percentcomplete -AutoSize
Get Mailbox Move information by BATCH NUMBER and good information
Get-moverequest | Get-moverequeststatistics| ft DisplayName,batchname,PercentComplete,TotalMailboxSize,Bytestransferredperminute -AutoSize
Get Move Status by Database
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited | Get-moverequeststatistics| where {$_.SourceDatabase -like “<source database name>″} | Sort-Object -Property PercentComplete -Descending | ft DisplayName, batchname, SourceDatabase,PercentComplete,Status -AutoSize
Get Mailbox Moves that are NOT completed
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited | Get-moverequeststatistics| where {$_.Status -notlike “completed*”} | Sort-Object -Property PercentComplete -Descending | ft DisplayName, batchname, SourceDatabase,PercentComplete,Status -AutoSize
Get Mailbox Moves that are Completing
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited | Get-moverequeststatistics| where {$_.Status -eq “completing”} | Sort-Object -Property PercentComplete -Descending | ft DisplayName, batchname, SourceDatabase,PercentComplete,Status -AutoSize
Use these commands to get a snapshot of the move throughput for completed moves.
$stats = Get-MoveRequest -MoveStatus Completed | Get-MoveRequestStatistics
$stats | sort totalmailboxsize | ft Alias,{$_.totalmailboxsize.ToMB()},totalinprogressduration -auto
Get Mailbox Moves that are NOT completed by Database
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited | Get-moverequeststatistics| where {$_.SourceDatabase -like “<database name>″ -and $_.Status -ne “completed”} | Sort-Object -Property PercentComplete -Descending | ft DisplayName, batchname, SourceDatabase,PercentComplete,Status -AutoSize
Get Mailbox Moves by Source DB that are pending completion (Auto Completion)
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited | Get-moverequeststatistics| where {$_.SourceDatabase -like “<database name>″ -and $_.Status -eq “autosuspended”} | Sort-Object -Property PercentComplete -Descending | ft DisplayName,PercentComplete,TotalMailboxSize,Bytestransferredperminute ,status -AutoSize
Get Mailbox Moves by Batch that are pending completion (Auto Completion)
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited | Get-moverequeststatistics| where {$_.Batchname -like “batch1″ -and $_.Status -eq “autosuspended”} | Sort-Object -Property PercentComplete -Descending | ft DisplayName, batchname, SourceDatabase,PercentComplete,Bytestransferredperminute, Status -AutoSize
Get Mailbox Moves that are Suspended
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited | Get-moverequeststatistics| where {$_.Status -eq “suspended”} | Sort-Object -Property PercentComplete -Descending | ft DisplayName, batchname, SourceDatabase,PercentComplete,Status -AutoSize
Get Suspended Moves and resume move requests
Get-MoveRequest -resultsize unlimited -MoveStatus Suspended | Resume-MoveRequest
Get Mailbox Moves that are NOT completed and resume them
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited | Get-moverequeststatistics| where {$_.Status -ne “completed”} | Resume-MoveRequest
Get Failed Moves and resume move requests
Get-MoveRequest -resultsize unlimited -MoveStatus Failed | Resume-MoveRequest
Get Autosuspended Moves and resume move requests
Get-MoveRequest -resultsize unlimited -MoveStatus Autosuspended | Resume-MoveRequest
Get Completed Moves and Remove move requests
Get-MoveRequest -resultsize unlimited -MoveStatus Completed | Remove-MoveRequest
Get Mailbox Moves that are NOT completed and remove requests
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited | Get-moverequeststatistics| where {$_.Status -notlike “completed*”} | Remove-MoveRequest
Remove completed moves by Batch
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited |get-moverequeststatistics |where ({$_.Batchname -like “batch1 to batch2″ -and $_.Status -eq “completed”})| Remove-MoveRequest
Get-Mailbox Move Statistics with Great Details
Get-MoveRequest -resultsize unlimited| Get-MoveRequestStatistics |Sort-Object CompletionTimeStamp| ft DisplayName, @{Expression={$_.BadItemsEncountered};Label=”Errors”}, @{Expression={$_.PercentComplete};Label=”Percent”}, @{Expression={$_.TotalMailboxSize.ToString().Split(“(“)[0]};Label=”Size”}, @{Expression={$_.totalinprogressduration};label=”Time”},@{Expression={(($_.BytesTransferred/$_.TotalInProgressDuration.TotalMinutes)*60).ToString().Split(“(“)[0]};Label=”Pace/hr”}, @{Expression={$_.MRSServerName.ToString().Split(“.”)[0]};Label=”CAS”}, @{Expression={$_.SourceDatabase.ToString().Split(“\”)[0]};Label=”SourceServer”},SourceDatabase,Status,CompletionTimestamp -auto
Get-Mailbox Move Statistics with Great Details and export
Get-MoveRequest -resultsize unlimited| Get-MoveRequestStatistics |Sort-Object status| ft DisplayName, @{Expression={$_.BadItemsEncountered};Label=”Errors”}, @{Expression={$_.PercentComplete};Label=”Percent”}, @{Expression={$_.TotalMailboxSize.ToString().Split(“(“)[0]};Label=”Size”}, @{Expression={$_.totalinprogressduration};label=”Time”},@{Expression={(($_.BytesTransferred/$_.TotalInProgressDuration.TotalMinutes)*60).ToString().Split(“(“)[0]};Label=”Pace/hr”}, @{Expression={$_.MRSServerName.ToString().Split(“.”)[0]};Label=”CAS”}, @{Expression={$_.SourceDatabase.ToString().Split(“\”)[0]};Label=”SourceServer”},SourceDatabase,Status,CompletionTimestamp -auto > c:\dame.txt
Cancel Move Request for one user
Get-moverequest -Identity ‘user’ | Remove-MoveRequest
Get Move request ERROR status for Failed jobs
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited |get-moverequeststatistics |where ({$_.Batchname -like “batch” -and $_.Status -eq “failed”})| sort-object -Property Status -descending | fl DisplayName,batchname,sourcedatabase,targetdatabase,overallduration,mrsservername,totalmailboxsize,totalmailboxitemcount,percentcomplete,failurecode,failuretype,message,failuretimestamp
Get Move request ERROR status for Failed jobs
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited |get-moverequeststatistics |where {$_.Status -eq “failed”}| sort-object -Property Status -descending | fl DisplayName,batchname,sourcedatabase,targetdatabase,overallduration,mrsservername,totalmailboxsize,totalmailboxitemcount,percentcomplete,failurecode,failuretype,message,failuretimestamp
Get move details for ongoing moves
Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited |get-moverequeststatistics |where ({$_.Batchname -like “batch” -and $_.Status -ne “completed”})| sort-object -Property Status -descending | ft DisplayName,batchname,status,targetdatabase,overallduration,mrsservername,percentcomplete -autosize
Find number of moves that haven’t completed
(Get-moverequest -resultsize unlimited |get-moverequeststatistics |where {$_.Batchname -like “batch” -and $_.Status -ne “completed”}).count| ft -autosize
Create a local move request
New-MoveRequest -Identity ‘[email protected]’ -TargetDatabase <database name>
Create a move request that suspends before completion
New-MoveRequest -Identity ‘[email protected]’ -TargetDatabase <database name> -SuspendWhenReadyToComplete
Remove \ Clear completed move requests
Get-MoveRequest -resultsize unlimited -MoveStatus queued | Remove-MoveRequest
Resume Failed Requests
Get-MoveRequest -resultsize unlimited -MoveStatus Failed | Resume-MoveRequest
Create a move request processed by a specific server
New-MoveRequest -Identity ‘[email protected]’ -TargetDatabase <database name> -MRSServer exchsrv1.domain.com
Move a user’s primary mailbox and allow a large bad item limit
New-MoveRequest -Identity ‘[email protected]’ -TargetDatabase <database name> -BadItemLimit 100 -AcceptLargeDataLoss
