How to move Exchange Catalog files to different drive

 

This is how to move the Exchange Catalog files to a different drive :

Open the exchange management shell and execute the following command

Set-MailboxDatabase -Identity databasename -IndexEnabled $false

Stop the Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer service

 

Catalog002

 

You can move your old files to the new directory, in my case the files were in the following dir :

Catalog001

The files will be in the parent directory were the Exchange Mailbox database are also located.

Now start the Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer service and execute the following command :

Set-MailboxDatabase -Identity databasename -IndexEnabled $false

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