Create New Exchange 2016 Mailbox Database using PowerShell

New Mailbox Database using PowerShell

In this post I will create a new Mailbox Database for Exchange 2016 using PowerShell.

Available Syntax for the cmdlet “New-MailboxDatabase”

New-MailboxDatabase -Name  -Server  [-AutoDagExcludeFromMonitoring <$true | $false>]
[-IsExcludedFromInitialProvisioning ] [-IsExcludedFromProvisioning <$true | $false>]
[-IsSuspendedFromProvisioning <$true | $false>] [-OfflineAddressBook ]
[-PublicFolderDatabase ] [-Confirm []] [-DomainController ]
[-EdbFilePath ] [-LogFolderPath ] [-MailboxProvisioningAttributes
] [-SkipDatabaseLogFolderCreation ] [-WhatIf []]
[]

To get started we need to launch the Exchange PowerShell console and the run the following cmdlet.

New-MailboxDatabase -Name "DB1" -Server ThatLazyEX-02 -EdbFilePath D:\DB\DB1.edb -LogFolderPath D:\Logs\

Next is to mount the newly created DB.

Mount-Database DB1

Lets verify that DB and Logs is created in the correct location before we start creating new Mailboxes on this DB.

Get-MailboxDatabase Db1 |ft Name,EdbFilePath ,LogFolderPath -AutoSize

Lets go a head and create a mailbox and select the newly created DB.

Enable-Mailbox -Identity User2 -Database DB1

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