Exchange 2010: can’t remove move request – Failed to communicate with the mailbox database

After a failed move request, the mailbox is still marked is being moved and cannot be removed again

After a failed move request, sometimes (for unknown reason) the mailbox is still marked is being moved and cannot be removed again... the mailbox is shown with a green icon on the EMC (Exchange Management Console), however it cannot be seen on the "Move Request" section or with Get-MoveRequest command and cannot be cleared with the Remove-MoveRequest command.


1. Open User Attributes
2. Scroll down the attributes and search for an entry called "msExchMailboxMoveTargetMDBLink" and "msExchMailboxMoveBatchName".
5. Click on the "Edit" button.
6. Click on the "Clear" button.
7. Click the "OK" button.

If you have many users you can use powershell script:


$Users = Get-Content c:\tmp\atribute.txt

ForEach ($User in $Users) {

Set-ADUser -Server test.local -Identity "$user" -Clear "msExchMailboxMoveTargetMDBLink"
}
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$Users = Get-Content c:\tmp\atribute.txt

ForEach ($User in $Users) {

Set-ADUser -Server test.local -Identity "$user" -Clear "msExchMailboxMoveBatchName"

}

in c:\tmp\atribute.txt put user DN-s.

After this you can remove failed moves from exchange console.