The Exchange Team would like to get your feedback on use of Exmerge in Exchange 2003, to make sure that we are focusing on right things in our next release. There are a few questions we have...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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What are Exchange 2003 scenarios where you use Exmerge or bulk PST export/import?
There are only two times I use it:
1 - When someone leaves the company. Most of the time I leave their mailbox in place for up to 6 months. Then I export it to a PST, write that file to a CD and delete the mailbox.
2 - The only other time I used it was when I was doing a swing upgrade of Exchange and I had some users who had corrupted items in their mailbox and couldn't be moved using the "Move mailbox" function. I needed to export each part of the mailbox as a PST to find the offending items and then put the whole thing back together on the new server.
I do this so infrequently that I don't bother to script it. We are also a small company (~50 mailboxes)
1 - When someone leaves the company. Most of the time I leave their mailbox in place for up to 6 months. Then I export it to a PST, write that file to a CD and delete the mailbox.
2 - The only other time I used it was when I was doing a swing upgrade of Exchange and I had some users who had corrupted items in their mailbox and couldn't be moved using the "Move mailbox" function. I needed to export each part of the mailbox as a PST to find the offending items and then put the whole thing back together on the new server.
I do this so infrequently that I don't bother to script it. We are also a small company (~50 mailboxes)