How to recreate System Mailbox , FederatedEmail & DiscoverySearchMailbox in Exchange 2010

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is there any effects if i move these accounts to another OU in active directory ?

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Is this workaround applicable if the arbitration mailboxes are corrupted and in inconsistent state?

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Just finished installing exchange 2010 along side exchange 2003. created a test user on 2010. This user can send to users on 2003 and outside but can not receive from 2003 nor from outside. Please help.

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Thank you so much for the great and easy explanation. We migrated from 2007 to 2010 a while ago and never used Discovery Search Mailbox, I tried to use it two days ago and I got an error saying it’s deleted, I checked it, it’s there, but when I run Exchange Powershell it’s shown as UserMailBox instead of DiscoveryMailBox, even though it’s shown in Exchange Console as DiscoveryMailBox.

Please, help.
Thanks!!!

Thank you so much for the great and easy explanation. We migrated from 2007 to 2010 a while ago and never used Discovery Search Mailbox, I tried to use it two days ago and I got an error saying it’s deleted, I checked it, it’s there, but when I run Exchange Powershell it’s shown as UserMailBox instead of DiscoveryMailBox, even though it’s shown in Exchange Console as DiscoveryMailBox. How to fix this issue?

Please, help.
Thanks!!!

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We have lost our 3 system mailboxes on Exch 2010. Running setup.com/PrepareAD runs fine and finishes without error, but NO accounts are created.
We installed the 1st Exch 2010 server on version of plain Exch 2010. Then we loaded SP1, then Sp2 and SP3.
I am running the setup.com/PrepareAD from the SP3 DVD Microsoft disc.

Should I run it from the original Exch 2010 version we used to install the system ?

Hello, please tell me, these arbitration mailboxes exists on all exchange databases or exists in the root domain for all?

Satheshwaran Manoharan, your documents always help me alot, recently my admin delete unintentionally deleted artibation mailboxes actual i have separate database for such mailboxes and that drive format by my admin, after that OAB is not working correctly as well as we are unable to search users in Lync so what i believer that the reason behind all such issue. we have such system account in AD but their mailboxes are not available so do i only need to run enable command from exchange shell. we are using exchange 2013

Hi Satheshwaran,

Does this work for 2013 SP1, too?

Thanks,
Steven

Hi Satheshwaran Manoharan

Your article was very helpful and i have the exact same issue which i am trying to resolve. Using the above command and process to recreate the exchange accounts i guess would need to be done out of hours and any other precautions that need to be done or to know. Would this bring the exchnage server down.

I have a production 2010 exchange enviroment and a new tasking to search mailboxes for particular data. I dont have the system mailboxes in ADUC or exchange.
I tried to run the setup.com/prepare ad on my exch server and dc.
I am getting: The well-known object entry B:32:B3DDC6BE2A3BE84B97EB2DCE9477E389:CN=Help DeskADEL:324173d0-99c6-4437-9750-821aad8701ba on the otherWellKnownObjects attribute in the container object CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration points to an invalid DN or a deleted object. Remove the entry, and then rerun the task.

Have you seen this before?

Hi,is there any effects if i move these accounts to another Database in Exchange server ?

Hi Sathish,

1.My Test-Mailflow results always failure in my Production Exchange .. i think my System mailbox Corrupted..
if i run Setup.com /prepareAd will there be any impact on Production ??

Hi,

My Test-Mailflow results always failure in production . if in run setup.com /preparead will impact on production ??

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Good article BTW. I found it today for an issue I’m having. Keep up the good work!

Hi,

Thank you for posting such a very useful article. I Just need to confirm that should i run setup.com /PrepareAd on child domain controllers as well? because after successfully created arbitration users on forest domain i get error on enable-mailbox command that the xyz arbitration user not found on (mychilddomain).

Thanks for this post Satheshwaran. I had to Disable and then Enable the discovery search because of some errors when I was trying to update to Exchange 2010 SP3. I ran the following and it all worked.

Disable-Mailbox “DiscoverySearchMailbox {D919BA05-46A6-415f-80AD-7E09334BB852}”

Enable-Mailbox “DiscoverySearchMailbox {D919BA05-46A6-415f-80AD-7E09334BB852}” -Arbitration

Add-MailboxPermission -Identity:”cosp.internal/Users/DiscoverySearchMailbox {D919BA05-46A6-415f-80AD-7E09334BB852}” -User:”Discovery Management” -AccessRights:”FullAccess”

When I run Get-Mailbox -Arbitration I can see the discovery mailbox, however I cannot see this mailbox in the exchange management console, where I was able to see it before disabling/enabling. Also I see the discovery search mailbox in the disconnected mailbox list. Any idea how to get it back into the GUI or it doesnt matter? Thanks!

Had a problem with corrupted system accounts caused “#550 5.2.0 Resolver.MT.NoArbitrationAddress; No arbitration address for approval process ##”

As per the many sets of instruction I deleted the system accounts. When I run setup.com /preparead it says copying files and then stops. Never does the copy never recreates accounts. I checked the versions and both echange and the setup.com are the same 14.01.0270.001

Any other fixes for setup not running?

Thanks for the nice article. I am having a challenge were some of these accounts are pointing to my DR site when I run get-mailbox -arbitration:

FederatedEmail.4c1f4d8..
SystemMailbox{1f05a927..
SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29..

does it matter where they are pointing?

Hi, great article!
Thank you
However, I have an exchange 2010 SP3 with Update Rollup 11.
What media CD shall I use to launch the Setup.com /prepareAd?
Can I only take the exchange 2010 SP3 media or must I take the latest version of setup.com coming with RU11?

Thanks for the feedback

Nice informative article, well presented and easy on the eye.
My Exchange 2010 is a child in the forest, i might have (i did) deleted the first Mailbox and Arbitration mailboxes…..do i have to get my mates in HQ to run the Setup.com /prepareAd
(in the root and with exchange forest admin rights)..or can i do it on our subdomain Exchange??

You rock dude!!! I recently got a request to perform eDiscovery and noticed that the system mailboxes are missing but the discovery search mailbox is still present. I’m considering following the steps you’d provided but I have a few questions. Also, I just verified that I only have federateemail by running get-mailbox – arbitration.

1. Do I run the command in my exchange server or domain controller?
2. Do I use the exchange server DVD?
3. What’s the impact in production? Is this an off-hour task or can it run during production hours?

Thanks in advance.

You rock dude!!! I recently got a request to perform eDiscovery and noticed that the system mailboxes are missing but the discovery search mailbox is still present. I’m considering following the steps you’d provided but I have a few questions. Also, I just verified that I only have federatedemail by running get-mailbox – arbitration.

1. Do I run the command in my exchange server or domain controller?
2. Do I use the exchange server DVD?
3. What’s the impact in production? Is this an off-hour task or can it run during production hours?

Thanks in advance.

Great!

I had followed all step and my issue was resolved.

Thanks for your support.