Skip to Main Content
Exchange Server Cookbook
book

Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Exchange Server Cookbook

6.4. Creating a Mailbox Database

Problem

You wish to create one or more additional mailbox databases in an existing storage group.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Launch the Exchange System Manager (Exchange System Manager.msc).

  2. In the left pane, expand the appropriate Administrative Groups container, and then expand the Servers container.

  3. Expand the server that contains the target storage group.

  4. Right-click the target storage group and choose New Mailbox Store.

  5. When the Properties dialog appears, enter a name for the database.

  6. Optionally, use the Database tab to select a location for the EDB and STM files.

  7. Optionally, use the Limits and Full-Text Indexing tabs to adjust properties on the database.

  8. Click OK.

  9. ESM will display a confirmation dialog to ask if you want the store mounted or not. Click Yes to mount the store or No to leave it dismounted.

Using VBScript

' This code creates a new mailbox database in the first storage group
' of the target server and then mounts it.
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
 strServerName = "<serverName>"   ' e.g., "BATMAN"    
 strMDBName = "<databaseName>" ' e.g., "SpiffyNewDatabase" ' ------ END CONFIGURATION --------- Set theServer = CreateObject("CDOEXM.ExchangeServer") Set theMDB = CreateObject("CDOEXM.MailboxStoreDB") ' bind to the Exchange server and build the database URL theServer.DataSource.Open strServerName arrSG = theServer.StorageGroups theFirstSG = arrSG(0) strURL = "LDAP://" & theServer.DirectoryServer & "/cn=" & _ strMDBName & "," ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010: Best Practices

Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010: Best Practices

Siegfried Jagott, Joel Stidley
Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed

Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed

Rand H. Morimoto - MCSE, Joe R. Coca, CISSP Kenton Gardinier - MCSE MCSA, MCSA Michael Noel - MCSE+I
Microsoft® Exchange Server 2013 Unleashed

Microsoft® Exchange Server 2013 Unleashed

Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Chris Amaris, Andrew Abbate

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596007175Errata Page