Remove Mailbox when DB is no more

In our small environment, we had the following:
Windows Server 2012 R2 with Exchange 2013 SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2 with Exchange 2010
The Windows Server 2008 R2 hard drive died, and I have rebuilt the server as a new Windows Server 2012 R2. I followed the instructions in ADSI EDIT to remove the old Exchange 2010 entry. My problem are the mailboxes that were hosted on the
Exchange 2010 database which no longer exists. I have disabled the mailboxes in Exchange 2013 but I need to remove the mailbox entries associated with the users so I can create new mailboxes on Exchange 2013. Help....I don't even know if this
is the correct approach.

do you just need to create the mailbox or need the data as well?
if you need the data then you need to have backup -- do yo u have the backup or database files?
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I'm trying to remove two extra Mailbox databases that we recently migrated users off of during consolidation. However, when I try and remove the DB's I get the following error message:
Microsoft Exchange Error
The mailbox database 'chsexmbm' cannot be deleted.
chsexmbm
Failed
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This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, or arbitration mailboxes. To get a list of all mailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database <Database ID>. To get a list of all mailbox plans
in this database, run the command Get-MailboxPlan. To get a list of archive mailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database <Database ID> -Archive. To get a list of all arbitration mailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox
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OK
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Name                                    Alias
ServerName
FederatedEmail.4c1f4d8b-8179-4148-93bf- FederatedEmail.4c1f4d8b-8179-4148-93bf- smschsexmb1
00a95fa1e042                            00a95fa1e042
SystemMailbox{1f05a927-f1d5-4153-bd93-d SystemMailbox{1f05a927-f1d5-4153-bd93-d smschsexmb1
fca46ac6957}                            fca46ac6957}
SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e smschsexmb1
6c29d823ed9}                            6c29d823ed9}
However, when I try and move or remove these mailboxes, I get an error from EMS stating that they cannot be found.
Any idea what I need to do here to resolve this so I can remove these DB's?
Thanks!!

Hi
Suggestion 1: verify mailboxes:
1. In Exchange management shell, run these cmdlets:
Set-ADServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $True
get-mailbox -database "DBname" –arbitration
2. Please verify if arbitration mailbox shows. If yes, please move these mailboxes with this cmdlet:
Get-Mailbox -Database "DBname" -Arbitration|New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase "DB2Name"
Note: please replace DB2Name with the target database name.
3. Wait for the complete of AD replication, after that, please try to remove database again.
Suggestion 2: If the database still cannot be removed and you have followed the instruction in error message, but nothing returned. It seems the database is empty. So I suggest we use ADSI Edit to remove the database object directly since it no
longer contains any mailboxes.
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Remove mailbox database copy from DAG

Hi There,
We would like to remove the mailbox database copy from our exchange server as we are lack of the space on our fixed vhd and we hope to be able to free about 100GB from the passive database copies as we have deployed DAG. is there any guidelines or procedures
to safely remove the database copies? currently, we have 4 mailbox servers, HQMB01, HQMB02, SSMB01, and SSMB02. HQMB01 and HQMB02 is already part of DAG members by itself. however, on ssmb01 and ssmb02, we also add in HQMB01 and HQMB02 as the DAG member,
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and SSMB02 from the DAG, thus we could remove the passive database copies. The following is the picture of the activation preference for all servers. what is the procedures and the guidelines to remove mailbox database copy and also remove the server from
the DAG members? we are quite confuse and worry that after we are removing wrongly and cause the active database to lost as we understand that there is replication happening between them. as we have 4 mailbox servers from which server we should perform
the task? Wish to get some advises from the exchange guru from this forum. we are on exchange server 2010 sp1 and windows server 2008 R2.Thanks so much.
Name                 : HQDB01
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ActivationPreference : {[HQMB01, 1], [HQMB02, 2]}
ReplayLagTimes       : {[HQMB01, 00:00:00], [HQMB02, 00:00:00]}
TruncationLagTimes   : {[HQMB01, 00:00:00], [HQMB02, 00:00:00]}
Name                 : HQDB02
Servers              : {HQMB02, HQMB01}
ActivationPreference : {[HQMB02, 1], [HQMB01, 2]}
ReplayLagTimes       : {[HQMB02, 00:00:00], [HQMB01, 00:00:00]}
TruncationLagTimes   : {[HQMB02, 00:00:00], [HQMB01, 00:00:00]}
Name                 : SSDB01
Servers              : {SSMB01, SSMB02, HQMB01, HQMB02}
ActivationPreference : {[SSMB01, 1], [SSMB02, 2], [HQMB01, 3], [HQMB02, 4]}
ReplayLagTimes       : {[SSMB01, 00:00:00], [SSMB02, 00:00:00], [HQMB01, 00:00:00], [HQMB02, 00:00:00]}
TruncationLagTimes   : {[SSMB01, 00:00:00], [SSMB02, 00:00:00], [HQMB01, 00:00:00], [HQMB02, 00:00:00]}
Name                 : SSDB02
Servers              : {SSMB02, SSMB01, HQMB01, HQMB02}
ActivationPreference : {[SSMB02, 1], [SSMB01, 2], [HQMB01, 3], [HQMB02, 4]}
ReplayLagTimes       : {[SSMB02, 00:00:00], [SSMB01, 00:00:00], [HQMB01, 00:00:00], [HQMB02, 00:00:00]}
TruncationLagTimes   : {[SSMB02, 00:00:00], [SSMB01, 00:00:00], [HQMB01, 00:00:00], [HQMB02, 00:00:00]}

Hi Exchange Guru,
thanks so much for the prompt response..i have few queries to ask following your guidelines above:
1. from the show result above, I am still confuse which server that I should go to remove as this is involving 4 database copies. from what I understand from the truncation or replay lag times of SSDB01 and SSDB02, I can see that HQMB01 and HQMB02 are on
the third and fourth preference, which means that SSDB01 and SSDB02 will be able to failover to each of them when there is a failure and it cause the passive copies of both of SSDB01 and SSDB02 to be stored in the HQMB01 and HQMB02. what my purpose
is to remove both SSDB01 and SSDB02 passive copies in HQMB01 and HQMB02. in this case, should I login to SSDB01 or SSDB02 mailbox servers to perform the removal with your guidelines above?
2. is the command as below:
Remove-MailboxDatabaseCopy -Identity SSDB01\HQMB01 -Confirm:$False
Remove-MailboxDatabaseCopy -Identity SSDB01HQMB02 -Confirm:$False
Remove-MailboxDatabaseCopy -Identity SSDB02\HQMB01 -Confirm:$False
Remove-MailboxDatabaseCopy -Identity SSDB02\HQMB02 -Confirm:$False
will this cause the risk either of my HQDB01, HQDB02, SSDB01, and SSDB02 active copies accidentally being removed? I am sorry that I am a bit naggy and always want a confirmation as this is very critical and I must be super careful.
3. If after the removal successful, when is the best time to go to the drive where the passive copies stored and remove them so I can clear some space on my disk? and is it just as simple by going to the drive and do a folder file deletion manually?
because I just worry when I delete the file and the server is still replicating between each other, which will cause even corruption to the active database.
4. From point 3, you mention about when the server is empty. what do you mean by that? do you mean that when the passive copies are no more there? and what command that I used to check?
5. From point 4, is removing the server from DAG the last step to be performed? yes, I want to remove them from DAG, thus will left only HQMB01 and HQMB02 as one DAG and SSMB01 and SSMB02 as one DAG.
Thank so so much for your patient and attention.
Regards,
Henry

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hi,
I have a couple of general questions:
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Removing Mailbox DBs, while keeping all AD Exchange attributes intact?

So I have migrated my groupware platform from Exch2010sp1 to Google Apps (sorry, MS, but if you gave 365 away for free to 501c3's I would have considered it). I am using
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DiscoverySearchMailbox {D919BA05-46A6-415f-80AD-7E09334BB852}
MONITORING MAILBOXES
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