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Remove a Database Availability Group

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Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

Before you can remove a database availability group (DAG), the DAG must be empty. If the DAG you want to remove contains any Mailbox servers, you must first remove the servers from the DAG. For detailed steps about how to remove a Mailbox server from a DAG, see Manage Database Availability Group Membership.

Looking for other management tasks related to DAGs? Check out Managing Database Availability Groups.

Use the EMC to remove a database availability group

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the"Database availability groups" entry in the High Availability Permissions topic.

  1. In the console tree, navigate to Organization Configuration > Mailbox.
  2. In the result pane, on the Database Availability Group tab, right-click the DAG you want to remove, and then click Remove.
  3. Click Yes to confirm the action and remove the DAG.

Use the Shell to remove a database availability group

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the"Database availability groups" entry in the High Availability Permissions topic.

This example removes a DAG named DAG1.

Remove-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -Identity DAG1 -Confirm:$False