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Exchange 2016 - looking for script to recommend mailbox moves to balance Databases
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I always just rely on the automatic database distribution built-in to Exchange.
If you exclude all the source databases, then it will randomly choose the ones you want:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/automatic-mailbox-distribution-exchange-2013-help
You can always use a script like this:
Its older yes, written before the automatic stuff was built-in but will still apply:
https://www.allabout365.com/2010/09/balancing-exchange-databases/
Thanks.
I've seen many scripts for 2010, but thats it.
We do let Exchange auto select, the problem is many mailboxes have grown very large, and we need to move them. I can manually review and move, but I was hoping there's a script that calculates and takes into account both size of DB, and the amount of mailboxes on it, then somehow recommend the best db for each mailbox. I would then manually move.
I did find this, but have yet to test it:
https://github.com/zloeber/Powershell/blob/master/Exchange/New-ExchangeRebalancingReport.ps1
yea and I think you find most are older, but will still work of course.
I havent seen one that does exactly what you describe however. As you can imagine, as many have moved to 365, that requirement has lessened.
This may be close to what you need, once outputting then sorted by DB, but I haven't used it an awhile .
https://practical365.com/powershell-script-create-mailbox-size-report-exchange-server-2010/