Although the migration arbitration mailbox is created upon initial installation of your Exchange organization, due to corruption or general lack of the account (randomly goes missing!) you can easily re-create it as follows:
Firstly verify the account (Migration.8f3e7716-2011-43e4-96b1-aba62d229136) does not exist:
Get-Mailbox -Arbitration | fl name, alias
Re-run the following Exchange command (don't worry it shouldn't harm anything in your existing environment!):
setup /preparead/IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms
Proceed by enabling the arbitration account used for migration (not enabled by default):
Enable-Mailbox -Arbitration -Identity "Migration.8f3e7716-2011-43e4-96b1-aba62d229136"
and configure it as follows:
Set-Mailbox "Migration.8f3e7716-2011-43e4-96b1-aba62d229136" -Arbitration –Management:$true
Finally we can verify the account with:
Get-Mailbox -Arbitration | fl name, alias
and
Get-MigrationUser
This also worked in Exchange 2016. Thanks for the tip.
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter,, it worked for me exchange 2013...
ReplyDeletethanks, i confirm it does work for exchange 2016. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteThank you Peter, this worked on Exchange 2016. Thanks, Jay
ReplyDeleteI'm getting same error and the user "Migration.8f3e7716-2011-43e4-96b1-aba62d229136 does exist..
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