During the move from an Exchange Mailbox DB you got the following error:WMI exception occurred on server XY: Quota violation
The full error is:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Move-DatabasePath -Identity EXCHMB1 -EdbFilePath "F:\MailboxDatabases\EXCHMB1\EXCHMB1.edb" -LogFolderPath "F:\MailboxLogs\EXCHMB1"
Failed to connect to target server "EXCH02". Error: WMI exception occurred on server 'exch02.emea.contoso.com': Quota violation
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (EXCHMB1:DatabaseIdParameter) [Move-DatabasePath], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=EXCH02,RequestId=d4712e1c-0586-4293-b240-4e767d936f6d,TimeStamp=2018-05-27 18:15:24] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-InvalidOperationException]
BF1995F3,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.MoveDatabasePath
+ PSComputerName : exch02.emea.contoso.com
The issue above could happen, if there is a very large amount of log files on the log folder path. One possible solution to solve the issue would be to remove the Exchange Server transaction log files as written by Microsoft here.
Those log files grows when the Exchange server receives an email, then it dumps the email to the transaction logs and when the Exchange server has time, it free´s it up and plays these logs into the database.These Exchange logs get deleted, when the backup environment finished the backup from the DB.
So sometimes Exchange may not have played all these log files into the database and you can´t simply “delete” them without a possible data lost, so you need to check at first if its save to delete them. To do that perform the following:
1.) Dismount the Exchange Mailbox Databases you wish to clean up.
2.) Start a CMD via run as admin
3.) Inside that CMD use ESEUTIL to view if all the logs have been played into the Exchange Database. This can be done via:
eseutil /MH database.edb
It should show something like “State: Clean Shutdown” inside the output which looks like below:
Extensible Storage Engine Utilities for Microsoft(R) Exchange Server
Version 15.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Initiating FILE DUMP mode...
Database: EXCHMB1.edb
DATABASE HEADER:
Checksum Information:
Expected Checksum: 0xc2c8b4b9
Actual Checksum: 0xc2c8b4b9
Fields:
File Type: Database
Checksum: 0xc2c8b4b9
Format ulMagic: 0x89abcdef
Engine ulMagic: 0x89abcdef
Format ulVersion: 0x620,20,0 (attached by 0)
Engine ulVersion: 0x620,60,120 (efvCurrent = 9040)
Created ulVersion: 0x620,20
DB Signature: Create time:06/10/2016 12:36:06.288 Rand:3801700655 Computer:
cbDbPage: 32768
dbtime: 7269971185 (0x1b152f4f1)
State: Clean Shutdown
Log Required: 0-0 (0x0-0x0)
Log Committed: 0-0 (0x0-0x0)
Log Recovering: 0 (0x0)
Log Consistent: 0 (0x0)
GenMax Creation: 00/00/1900 00:00:00.000 LOC
Shadowed: Yes
Last Objid: 714248
Scrub Dbtime: 0 (0x0)
Scrub Date: 00/00/1900 00:00:00.000 LOC
Repair Count: 0
Repair Date: 00/00/1900 00:00:00.000 LOC
Old Repair Count: 0
Last Consistent: (0x4E02E4,C4,890) 05/27/2018 17:56:09.396 UTC
Last Attach: (0x3DCD7F,2,268) 01/11/2018 22:41:38.140 UTC
Last Detach: (0x4E02E4,C4,890) 05/27/2018 17:56:09.396 UTC
Last ReAttach: (0x4DF149,2,268) 05/25/2018 19:33:52.192 UTC
Dbid: 1
Log Signature: Create time:06/10/2016 12:36:06.225 Rand:2532421212 Computer:
OS Version: (6.2.9200 SP 0 NLS ffffffff.ffffffff)
Previous Full Backup:
Log Gen: 4912506-4912599 (0x4af57a-0x4af5d7) - OSSnapshot
Mark: (0x4AF5D8,1,0)
Mark: 04/27/2018 18:07:24.022 UTC
Previous Incremental Backup:
Log Gen: 0-0 (0x0-0x0)
Mark: (0x0,0,0)
Mark: 00/00/1900 00:00:00.000 LOC
Previous Copy Backup:
Log Gen: 0-0 (0x0-0x0)
Mark: (0x0,0,0)
Mark: 00/00/1900 00:00:00.000 LOC
Previous Differential Backup:
Log Gen: 0-0 (0x0-0x0)
Mark: (0x0,0,0)
Mark: 00/00/1900 00:00:00.000 LOC
Current Full Backup:
Log Gen: 0-0 (0x0-0x0)
Mark: (0x0,0,0)
Mark: 00/00/1900 00:00:00.000 LOC
Current Shadow copy backup:
Log Gen: 0-0 (0x0-0x0)
Mark: (0x0,0,0)
Mark: 00/00/1900 00:00:00.000 LOC
cpgUpgrade55Format: 0
cpgUpgradeFreePages: 0
cpgUpgradeSpaceMapPages: 0
ECC Fix Success Count: none
Old ECC Fix Success Count: none
ECC Fix Error Count: none
Old ECC Fix Error Count: none
Bad Checksum Error Count: none
Old bad Checksum Error Count: none
Last Database Maintenance Finish Date: 01/31/2017 03:13:56.808 UTC
Current Database Maintenance Start Date: 02/11/2017 03:36:16.189 UTC
Highest Continuous Database Maintenance Page: 2148328
Highest Database Maintenance Page: 1357264
Database Header Flush Signature: Create time:05/27/2018 17:56:09.396 Rand:250959763 Computer:
Flush Map Header Flush Signature: Create time:00/00/1900 00:00:00.000 Rand:0 Computer:
Operation completed successfully in 0.15 seconds.
Keep noted that if you perform the deletion with another state as Clean Shutdown, you will for sure get an data lost!
3.) If you have a “Clean Shutdown” from the Database, you can delete all the *.log files. Depending on the large amount the best way would be to do that via DOS:
cd D:\MailboxLogs\EXCHMB1
del E0400E*.log
4.) Delete the chk file. This file is the checkpoint file, which keeps track of which log files have been and have not been played into the database. Since there are no log files anymore as we deleted them, the checkpoint is not needed and should be deleted as well.
5.) remount the DB
