Move disabled archive mailbox to another database

Question

Hy!

I working with a mailbox migration and I moved all users mailbox from their original database with their archive mailbox to the new mailbox database and new archive mailbox database. But I disabled some users archive mailboxes which is pointed to the old database. When I run the following command, I can see these disabled archive mailboxes pointed the old one:

Get-Mailbox | ft name,database,archivedatabase,disabledarchivedatabase

How can I move the disabled archive mailbox to the new database, I can't find nothing about the -DisabledArchiveDatabase parameter.

Thanks

Answer 1

You would need to re-connect the disabled archive to the primary and move it that way.

https://jeffbrown.tech/connect-an-archive-mailbox-in-exchange-2013/

then new-moverequest with the -ArchiveOnly switch to move them if the primary is already moved to the new database. Then you can disable the archives again if you want.

Otherwise, don't do anything and leave that old database intact until the deleted mailbox time is met and those disabled archive mailboxes are purged.