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Moving local mailboxes from Exchange 2016 to 2019 completes error free but doesn't move anything
Hi - I am probably doing something dumb. I want to move one mailbox from my Exchange 2016 server to my 2019 server. Same domain, just a server migration. From the EAC, I select the mailbox I wan...
- Looks like I stumbled across an answer. The problem goes back to 2017 when I moved all my mailboxes from Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016. The completed move requests were still there. After I deleted the completed move requests, mailbox moves started working as expected. I wonder if that's documented anywhere.
If you want to move your mailboxes, make sure you delete the move requests from the last time you moved your mailboxes.
3 1/2 months and 60 view later and still no progress. This is a Windows 2016 domain. I wonder if it will work better with a 2019 domain. The problem is maddening because I'm not able to find any footprints.
- Looks like I stumbled across an answer. The problem goes back to 2017 when I moved all my mailboxes from Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016. The completed move requests were still there. After I deleted the completed move requests, mailbox moves started working as expected. I wonder if that's documented anywhere.
If you want to move your mailboxes, make sure you delete the move requests from the last time you moved your mailboxes.- Thank you so much for documenting this. I had the same issue and was pulling my hair out. Would have never thought to just delete the old finished jobs. Karma will reward you.
