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The Mailbox Stores must mount at startup.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-33597 Exch-1-309 SV-44017r1_rule ECSC-1 Low
Description
Administrator responsibilities include the ability to react to unplanned maintenance tasks or emergency situations that may require Mailbox data manipulation. Occasionally, there may be a need to start the server with 'unmounted' data stores, if manual maintenance is being performed on them. Failure to uncheck the 'do not mount on startup' condition will result in unavailability of mail services. Correct configuration of this control will prevent unplanned outages due to being enabled. On occasions when it is needed, care should be taken in process steps to clear the check box upon task completion, so that mail stores are available to users (unmounted mailbox stores are not available to users).
STIG Date
Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server STIG 2014-03-11

Details

Check Text ( C-41704r1_chk )
Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Get-MailboxDatabase | Select Name, Identity, MountAtStartup

If the value of 'MountAtStartup' is not set to 'True', this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-37489r1_fix)
Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Set-MailboxDatabase -Identity <'MailboxName'> -MountAtStartup $true