Question about Exmerge and migrating large mailboxes by exporting to PST files

10 Nov 2005 11:12 AM

quentinhudson

Hi,

We have a remote site on our domain that connects to our head office
via a DSL connection. It has only a handful of users but the mailbox
sizes can be up to 3 gig in size. As a test, used Exmerge to export one
mailbox to a pst file, which I then copied out of hours on to one of
the servers based in the head office. I deleted most of the users's
mailbox items and used Active Directory to move his mailbox (reduced to
about 2MB from 150MB) to the HQ server. I imported the users's emails
back from the pst file into his mailbox, and it all seemed to work
fine. However, at the end I noticed the mailbox was about 20MB smaller
than what it was before the migration, and that it contained EXACTLY
5000 mails, which I thought was a suspiciously precise figure. Does
Exmerge only allow a set number of emails to be exported? If that is
the case, then it is completely useless for the planned migration of
the other user accounts from the remote office.

Thanks.

10 Nov 2005 1:57 PM

Tom Felts

PST's have had a limit og 2 gig in the past. When exporting large
mailboxes, it is better to do multiple extractions (you can use by date, for
example) to make sure you get them all....

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> Hi,
>
> We have a remote site on our domain that connects to our head office
> via a DSL connection. It has only a handful of users but the mailbox
> sizes can be up to 3 gig in size. As a test, used Exmerge to export one
> mailbox to a pst file, which I then copied out of hours on to one of
> the servers based in the head office. I deleted most of the users's
> mailbox items and used Active Directory to move his mailbox (reduced to
> about 2MB from 150MB) to the HQ server. I imported the users's emails
> back from the pst file into his mailbox, and it all seemed to work
> fine. However, at the end I noticed the mailbox was about 20MB smaller
> than what it was before the migration, and that it contained EXACTLY
> 5000 mails, which I thought was a suspiciously precise figure. Does
> Exmerge only allow a set number of emails to be exported? If that is
> the case, then it is completely useless for the planned migration of
> the other user accounts from the remote office.
>
> Thanks.
>

10 Nov 2005 5:24 PM

quentinhudson

How do you get Exmerge to do that?

10 Nov 2005 5:43 PM

Mark Arnold [MVP]

On 10 Nov 2005 09:24:29 -0800, quentinhud***@hotmail.com wrote:

>How do you get Exmerge to do that?

It's all in the exmerge wizard. It's still hit and miss though and you
might find that you tip a PST over the maximum size so you have to
delete it and then go back to change the parameters you put in.

10 Nov 2005 8:26 PM

Tom Felts

There are screen shots here:
http://www.petri.co.il/delete_messages_from_mailboxes_by_using_exmerge.htm

you set the date range...

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