Just ran Get-ClusteredMailboxServerStatus and received the message Cluster CommonFailure Exception : The Cluster Resource Group for clustered Mailbox server mailstore was not found.
Also, when I attempted to create a new mailbox database in both an existing storage group and an unused storage group (Fourth Storage Group) I get similar errors. The Fourth Storage Group error is as follows:
Summary: 1 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed.
Elapsed time: 00:00:00
Failed
Error:
Cluster Common Failure Exception: The cluster resource group for clustered mailbox server mailstore was not found.
Exchange Management Shell command attempted:
new-mailboxdatabase -StorageGroup 'mailstore\Fourth Storage Group' -Name 'Test' -EdbFilePath 'E:\Exchange\Data\Fourth Storage Group\Test.edb'
Elapsed Time: 00:00:00
I've been told that it is due to "Cluster IP" and "Cluster Name" were in the same cluster group as the rest of the Exchange mailbox cluster resources. Moving those two resources to a different cluster group resolved the problem.
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I need more details beyond just "move the resources"! So is this just a matter of moving these resources to another group (ie: into the core "Cluster Group")?Will this cause any down time or failover\failures? Do I need to take anything offline to do this? This is obviously on the production Exchange servers and any hiccup will cause aHUGE problem. I need to know what to expect and what could go wrongBEFORE I start the process to move these resources.
just another Steve