Exchange 2010 Troubleshooting: Mailbox move fails

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Introduction

Moving mailboxes in Exchange is relatively a painless task, but when you run into issues like space or network problems then all the moves you started all begin to fail.

Error

Here is an example of a DAG going down and all the moves failing with the following error:

Error: Move for mailbox 'mailbox1' is stalled because DataMoveReplicationConstraint is not satisfied for the database 'DAG1-STORE1' (agent MailboxDatabaseReplication). Failure Reason: Database <> does not satisfy constraint SecondCopy. Throttling completion as database copies are falling behind.

Screenshot

If you look at the properties of the mailbox move:

and then head over to the details tab:

Solution

Make sure the DAG is online and network connectivity restored, you can then resume the move and it should complete.