MapiExceptionMailboxQuarantined User cannot access OWA or Outlook
We had an issue this morning where our primary mail database went offline and no users could connect to Exchange. We bounced the server and everything appeared fine.
Now one user cannot access his mailbox at all. I've tried to bounce the information store service and that didn’t resolve the issue.
Exchange 2010 Version 14.0 Build 639.21, Single server all roles hosted on this server, on Server 2008 R2 Enterprise running on Hyper-V
I see this in the Event Log
The mailbox for user /o=Domain/ou=First Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=UserName has been quarantined. Access to this mailbox will be restricted to administrative logons for the next 6 hours.
I see this error when the user is logging in via OWA
Exception type:
Microsoft.Mapi.MapiExceptionMailboxQuarantined
I see this in the event log after I try and open the users calendar tab in Exchange Management Console
(PID 4608, Thread 22) Task Get-CalendarProcessing writing error when processing record of index 0. Error: Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StorageTransientException: Cannot
open mailbox /o=Domain/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=SVTAMWORTH/cn=Microsoft System Attendant. ---> Microsoft.Mapi.MapiExceptionMailboxQuarantined: MapiExceptionMailboxQuarantined: Unable to open message
store. (hr=0x80004005, ec=2611)
Any help would sure be appreciated. Thanks!
February 10th, 2011 6:11pm
OK I've got the issue resolved.
Good info here
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/d9bb9ba7-537a-423a-95f9-a5c167aa7722/
and here
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sjimmie/archive/2010/07/09/mailbox-quarantine.aspx
I had to run this command in Power Shell
get-mailbox -identity <user alias> |fl
to find the mailbox GUID then I had to go into regedit to this location and remove the key that matched the mailbox GUID and then restart the Information Store
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSexchangeIS\Servername\Private-dbguid\Quarantined Mailboxes\ {Mailbox guid}.
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February 10th, 2011 6:45pm
Thanks for posting those links here Nick, saved my time looking for them.
October 3rd, 2011 12:20am
Thanks for posting those links here Nick, saved my time looking for them.
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October 3rd, 2011 12:20am
Thanks for posting those links here Nick, saved my time looking for them.
October 3rd, 2011 12:29am
It looks like you can run the New-MailboxRepairRequest command to repair the mailbox
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff625226.aspx
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July 13th, 2012 6:25pm
It looks like you can run the New-MailboxRepairRequest command to repair the mailbox
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff625226.aspx
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July 13th, 2012 6:34pm
Very good info. Thanks. I had a bunch of mailboxes go in to quarantine when my storage subsystem hiccupped for a bit and had to figure out how to get them out. I've also had mailboxes go in to quarantine as a result of failing over to a DR DAG node and
then back again after restarting replication.
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August 1st, 2012 2:28pm
Very good info. Thanks. I had a bunch of mailboxes go in to quarantine when my storage subsystem hiccupped for a bit and had to figure out how to get them out. I've also had mailboxes go in to quarantine as a result of failing over to a DR DAG node and
then back again after restarting replication.
August 1st, 2012 2:29pm