Question : Exchange 2003: Problem Moving Mailboxes between storage groups

Hello,

Id like abit of help on an issue I have encountered with Exchange 2003 please.

Ive created a new Storage Group and I have created Mailbox stores for Each Department in our company spanning between the Default Storage Group and my new Second Storage group within the same "First!" Administrative Group.

I scheduled the accounts dept to move overnite, 3 at a time with 10 min intervals between schedule times.

A few of them failed to move, ill paste the error log below but notice the section:
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  Opening source mailbox.
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  The operation was canceled by the user.
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I asked everyone to log out properly before they left last nite, generally everyone switches their PCs off before they leave anyway.

Ive enabled maximum logging for moving mailboxes, so my next step is to try again, but just wondering if anyone has encountered this incase me trying again is potentially a waste of time.

Thanks alot.

 
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  /dc=bbnet/dc=birmingham/cn=Configuration/cn=Services/cn=Microsoft Exchange/cn=Barker Brettell/cn=Administrative Groups/cn=First Administrative Group/cn=Servers/cn=XTC-BHAM/cn=InformationStore/cn=Second Storage Group/cn=Accountse>
 
 
 
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  Opening source mailbox.
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  The operation was canceled by the user.
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  /dc=bbnet/dc=birmingham/cn=Configuration/cn=Services/cn=Microsoft Exchange/cn=Barker Brettell/cn=Administrative Groups/cn=First Administrative Group/cn=Servers/cn=XTC-BHAM/cn=InformationStore/cn=First Storage Group/cn=Mailbox Store (XTC-BHAM)
 
 

 

 
 
 

Answer : Exchange 2003: Problem Moving Mailboxes between storage groups

Any number of reasons. I very rarely get 100% on the first go, but the second attempt and they will move. It doesn't take much to cause the system to cough over a mailbox, as the database has to have no locks on the mailbox at all. If an email is coming in at just the moment the process starts, then it can cause the problem. I also suspect that Outlook doesn't always disconnect 100% correctly and can leave things behind.

Simon.