Config MetaCached DB not working on Exchange 2019

Goossens Dimitri (Admin) 0 Reputation points
2025-05-21T12:19:00.5166667+00:00

Hi

I'm configuring metacache databases on our new Exchange 2019 servers.
We've got 2 seperate disks available for them.

I used the official Microsoft documentation, but it seems to be missing some important info.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/high-availability/database-availability-groups/metacachedatabase-setup#prerequisites

Done so far :

  • Configured DAG
  • Configured autoreseed
  • brought both SSD's for metacache DB online (did not format them)
  • ran the powershell cmdlets

I ran it in verbose mode and see the scripts formatting the disks and perform the other actions.
I didn't get any errors in these activations, so i performed DB failovers to trigger the creation.

Done on all 4 servers

Unfortunately afterwards when I check to see if it works I get :

PS C:\scripts> Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus | fl meta*

MetaCacheDatabaseStatus : StorageOffline
MetaCacheDatabaseStatusMessage : Directory 'C:\ExDatabases\DAG2019-DB1' is not configured as a mountpoint.
MetaCacheDatabaseFilePath : C:\ExchangeMetaCacheDbs\DAG2019-DB1\DAG2019-DB1.mcdb\DAG2019-DB1-mcdb.edb

MetaCacheDatabaseLastReset :

It seems that I need to manually create the mountpoints then? But to which location should I map them ? And especially since I have 2 caching SSD disks?

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