Logon Failure on database while accessing or moving mailboxes
We were migrating a SBS 2003 server to a new SBS 2008 server via the swing migration method. After turning on the SBS 2008 server and temporary dc / exchange 2003 server we were not able to access or move the exchange 2003 mailboxes.
The mailbox move gives a: “The move-mailbox task for mailbox ‘mailboxname’ failed. Error: Failed to open mailbox with error: The operation failed.” error on the SBS 2008 (Exchange 2007) server.
On the Exchange 2003 server we get a: Event id 1022: “Logon Failure on database “First Storage Group\Mailbox Store” – Windows account domain\accountname; mailbox /o=domain/ou=first administrative group/cn=Recipients/cn=accountname.Error: 1144″ error.
Solution: It looks like that after forklift and update a exchange 2003 database it could take some time to connect because AD has to replicate the information between the 2 domain controllers. When this is done everything works fine. This can also occur after moving the exchange mailboxes to a the new sbs 2008 / exchange 2007 server.
Tags: exchange 2007, migration, sbs 2008
