First exchange 2013 server install in coexistence: Recreating arbitration mailboxes first

Hi
We have exchange 2010 servers and I want to introduce the first exchange 2013 server.
Some of our arbitration mailboxes currently in 2010 have become corrupt and my initial exchange 2013 installation failed.
Question: Can I remove existing exchange 2010 arbitration mailboxes and recreate them using EXCHANGE 2013 "SETUP /PrepareAD"????????  Afterall there are no 2013 servers in the environment yet
I wonder if it will fail due to version incompatibilities
Thanks

Hi,
Agree with DJ Grijalva. Exchange 2013 /prepareAD will create the arbitration mailboxes for Exchange 2013. And the arbitration mailboxes between Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 are different. So I recommend you use the 2010 /prepareAD to recreate the arbitration
mailboxes for 2010.
Hope my clarification is helpful to you.
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