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Today, Get-MigrationEndpoint error on local Exchange gave this error: "Cannot open mailbox /o=XXXX/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=XXXXXX/cn=Microsoft System Attendant. Standard checking for all arbitration mailboxes get-mailbox -Arbitration All mailboxes are in place. So this must be something else... So, let's check database where this mailbox exists: get-mailbox -Arbitration migration* |select database Database -------- Databasename Then, check database status: Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus databasename OK, so now we can see that mailbox is sitting inside dismounted database. If you mount it again, it'll fix this error. But you can of course mount database and move the mailbox over to the desired database using: New-MoveRequest  "Migration.8f3e7716-2011-43e4-96b1-aba62d229136" -TargetDatabase databasenamehere

Hi, Today, easy thing to manage, but of course - if you now how to do it. To get VM ID from hypervisor, for example - to manage virtual machine from the powershell direct - you need to run simple command in the administrator session: (get-vm v irtualmachinename ).id