Dismount a Database

Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

You can use the Exchange Management Console or the Shell to dismount a mailbox database on a computer that has the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox server role installed.

Looking for other management tasks related to mailbox databases? Check out Managing Mailbox Databases.

What Do You Want to Do?

• Use the EMC to dismount a database

• Use the Shell to dismount a database

Use the EMC to dismount a database

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Database permissions" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.

1. In the console tree, navigate to Organization Configuration > Mailbox.

2. In the result pane, select the server on which the mailbox or public folder database is located.

3. In the work pane, select the database that you want to dismount.

4. In the action pane, click Dismount Database.

5. A warning appears asking if you want to dismount the database. Click Yes.

Use the Shell to dismount a database

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Database permissions" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.

This example uses the Dismount-Database command to dismount the database MyDatabase.

Dismount-Database "MyDatabase"

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