Moving mailboxes

Move a mailbox to a different mailbox database

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Softerra.Adaxes.Adsi")

# Connect to the Adaxes service.
$ns = New-Object "Softerra.Adaxes.Adsi.AdmNamespace"
$service = $ns.GetServiceDirectly("localhost")

$userDN = "CN=John Smith,CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com"
$targetDatabaseDN =
    "CN=DB 2,CN=Databases,CN=Exchange Administrative Group," +
    "CN=Administrative Groups,CN=First Organization,CN=Microsoft Exchange," +
    "CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=com"

# Bind to the user.
$user = $service.OpenObject("Adaxes://$userDN", $null, $null, 0)

# Move mailbox.
$user.CreateMoveMailboxRequest("Adaxes://$targetDatabaseDN", $null, 0, 0)

Move a user mailbox to Microsoft 365

$Context.TargetObject.CreateMoveMailboxToM365Request(
    "mail.mycompany.com", 
    "mycompany.mail.onmicrosoft.com", 
    0, 
    0)  

Move a user mailbox from Microsoft 365

$Context.TargetObject.CreateMoveMailboxFromM365Request(
    "Mailbox Database 1", 
    "mail.mycompany.com", 
    "mycompany.com", 
    0, 
    0)

See also

• Performing Exchange tasks
• IAdmMoveExchangeMailboxOps
• IAdmMoveExchangeMailboxOps2
• Writing ADSI scripts
• Server-side scripting
• Online script repository

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