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Symptoms
Assume that you are in a Microsoft Exchange hybrid environment. When you try to offboard Exchange Online mailboxes to the on-premises organization by using the migration batch in Microsoft 365 Exchange Admin Center (EAC), the attempt fails, and you receive an error message that resembles the following:
'Error: MigrationPermanentException: Target user 'User' already has a primary mailbox.'.
Cause
This issue occurs because the HomeMDB
and HomeMTA
attributes are present on the user object in on-premises Active Directory, and they contain values.
Resolution
To fix this issue, follow these steps:
Step 1: Install Active Directory PowerShell Module, and then run either of the following PowerShell commands to review the values of the homeMDB
and homeMTA
attributes on the user object.
Command option 1
Get-ADUser -Filter {userprincipalname -eq 'user@contoso.com'} -properties homemdb,homemta
Command option 2
Get-ADUser -Identity 'SAMAccountName of the user' -properties homemdb,homemta
Step 2: Clear the values of the homemdb
and homemta
attributes. To do this, run either of the following PowerShell commands:
Command option 1
Get-ADUser -Filter {userprincipalname -eq 'user@contoso.com'} -properties homemdb,homemta | Set-ADObject -clear homemdb,homemta
Command option 2
Get-ADUser -Identity 'SAMAccountName of the user' -properties homemdb,homemta | Set-ADobject -clear homemdb,homemta
Step 3: Select the affected users in the migration batch, and then start the batch to move the users again. In this step, you could also use the following PowerShell command:
Start-MigrationUser -Identity user@contoso.com