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In simple language, Dial tone portability means allotting users a temporary mailbox for sending and receiving emails till their original mailbox becomes functional after a repair or restoration. This feature helps businesses to maintain email continuity in scenarios of Exchange Server failures or database issues.
You can have the temporary mailbox on the same server or another server in your organization (but they must contain databases with the same database schema version). The Autodiscover clients are automatically redirected to a new database (no manual update is required). When the original mailbox of the user has been restored, you, as an administrator, can merge the recovered mailbox and the dial tone mailbox.
In Dial Tone recovery, an empty database is created on a mailbox server, and the failed database is replaced with it. The empty database that you create is referred as dial tone database through which you can send or receive messages while your original database is being repaired.
The pre-requisites for executing the Dial Tone Recovery are:
Info: Exchange 2013/2016 Standard Edition supports up to five databases per server.
Start Exchange Management Shell and run the given commands one-by-one:
Or
To create another recovery database on another server –
Now move database and log files from dial tone database to recovery database folder.
Now, users can access the original database and can send and receive messages.
Now to verify that your mailbox has successfully been moved, open the mailbox Microsoft Outlook and Outlook for Web and check messages.
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