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Read this article to know how you can easily mount or dismount the Exchange Server database using the native ways and the things you need to take care of.
The Exchange Server database is dismounted when it is under maintenance, or it crashes due to network issues or JET Engine errors, or other problems. Once the situation is handled, the Exchange administrator is required to mount the dismounted database again. Here are the two ways to mount/dismount Exchange 2016 database(s).
Exchange Admin Center allows mounting and dismounting the Exchange 2016 mailbox database. Log in to Exchange Admin Center and follow the below procedure to dismount and mount a single Exchange 2016 database using the Exchange Admin Center.
The Exchange PowerShell or the Exchange Management Shell cmdlets can be used to mount or dismount the Exchange mailbox database. The Exchange Management Shell method is available for Exchange Server 2010 and above versions only, and users are required to have the administrator credentials and technical knowledge for using the required cmdlets.
A user must know the name of the Exchange database, which is dismounted currently, and he wants to mount. Execute the following command to mount a specific Exchange database.
You can confirm whether the database is mounted or not by running the following command.
If the output result for the Mounted column against your selected database comes “True”, then the database is successfully mounted.
Note that the Exchange database will not mount if it is not healthy or in a dirty shutdown or inconsistent state. To check the health of the database, run this command.
Here, you are required to enter the complete EDB file path.
To mount all Exchange databases within a server together
Use the below command to mount all the dismounted mailboxes within a server together by providing the server name to it.
Check if all the databases on the server are mounted or not with the following command.
To dismount a single Exchange database
If you want to know which all Exchange databases are mounted on your server, run this command.
Now, you got the name of the database you want to dismount for your use, then use that Exchange database to dismount the database.
To dismount all Exchange databases from a server
You would require the name of the server from which you want to dismount the databases. Here is the command.
Confirm the status of the databases after running the above command with this command.
If all the mailbox database servers under the Mounted column are displaying False status in the output, then all databases are dismounted successfully.
So, we have discussed the two manual ways to mount and dismount the Exchange 2016 database, which applies to Exchange 2010 and later versions too. But as mentioned earlier, the database will not mount if it is in an inconsistent or dirty shutdown state. You can run ESEUTIL for EDB repair. But if the issue is bigger or corruption is severe, you need to take the help of a professional Exchange database recovery tool. Try the Kernel for Exchange Server, an efficient Exchange Recovery tool to fix all errors within your Exchange database file and move it into a healthy database state again.
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