{"id":5318,"date":"2021-10-05T22:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T22:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2021-10-05T22:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T22:28:58","slug":"exchange-2016-db-removal-mailbox-database-is-associated-with-one-or-more-active-mailboximport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/exchange-2016-db-removal-mailbox-database-is-associated-with-one-or-more-active-mailboximport","title":{"rendered":"Exchange 2016 &#8211; DB Removal &#8211; mailbox database is associated with one or more active MailboxImport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently trying to remove a mailbox however was greeted with the error &#8220;<strong>mailbox database is associated with one or more active MailboxImport<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><p>Doing a<\/p><pre>Get-MailboxImportRequest | Remove-MailboxImportRequest<\/pre><p>Still did not work , in the end I had to use ADSI Edit to Nagivate to the below path and clear the value manually<\/p><pre class=\"prettyprint prettyprinted\"><span class=\"pln\">CN<\/span><span class=\"pun\">=<\/span><span class=\"typ\">Configuration<\/span>  <span class=\"pun\">-&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\"> CN<\/span><span class=\"pun\">=<\/span><span class=\"typ\">Services<\/span> <span class=\"pun\">-&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\"> CN<\/span><span class=\"pun\">=<\/span><span class=\"typ\">Microsoft<\/span> <span class=\"typ\">Exchange<\/span> <span class=\"pun\">-&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\"> CN<\/span><span class=\"pun\">=<\/span><span class=\"pln\">DOMAIN <\/span><span class=\"pun\">-&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\"> CN<\/span><span class=\"pun\">=<\/span><span class=\"typ\">Mailbox<\/span> <span class=\"typ\">Replication<\/span> <span class=\"pun\">-&gt;<\/span><span class=\"pln\"> CN<\/span><span class=\"pun\">=<\/span><span class=\"typ\">MailboxImportRequests<\/span><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently trying to remove a mailbox however was greeted with the error &#8220;mailbox database is associated with one or more active MailboxImport&#8220;Doing aGet-MailboxImportRequest | Remove-MailboxImportRequestStill did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3594,618,3593,3595,1164,971],"class_list":["post-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-database","tag-exchange","tag-mailbox-database-is-associated-with-one-or-more-active-mailboximport","tag-mailboximportrequests","tag-remove","tag-uninstall"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5320,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions\/5320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}