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What are Exchange 2003 scenarios where you use Exmerge or bulk PST export/import?

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The_Exchange_Team
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Feb 24, 2006

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 on the subject:

-          What are the scenarios where you use Exmerge with your Exchange 2003 servers now? (Note that we specified here "Exchange 2003" because some new features in Exchange 2003 – like a Recovery Storage Group for example – do not require use of Exmerge on Exchange 2003 servers anymore while this was required on earlier versions of Exchange)

-          Which of those are the most critical to you?

-          What are the scenarios where you do a bulk PST import / export operations using Exmerge? How often do you do this? Do you script it?

Please let us know by posting comments on this blog post.

 

Thank you!

 

- The Exchange Team

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Feb 25, 2006
    An managed API (c#) to exmerge would be handy to provide an automated way to export into .pst files.  

    We also use exmerge to export from one exchange organization to ours.  Very handy tool!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Feb 25, 2006
    We use it as a secondary, brick-level, backup and do a bulk export every night.

    Sometimes using a recovery storage group is just too long winded to recover just 1 email.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Feb 25, 2006
    Hi all,

    Here we have use it on some DR scenarios and mainly for company compliance.

    Sometimes we had an automated system that route messages to our email system (DMS Exchange, anyone ?!? ;-)) and certain messages needs to be removed from all users.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Feb 25, 2006
    I use Exmerge at least once a week.  I would love to script it, however, since I come across PSTs that can exceed 2GB frequently, I tend to extract most by hand so I can check their sizes.

    I would LOVE to see Exmerge support unicode PST files.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Feb 25, 2006
    Hello,

    The majority of my customers are using the Exmerge.

    They are using essentially for:
    - another way of backup, some of them use weekly or monthly;
    - sometimes when an user is fired, he receives a copy of your pst, by exmerge.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Feb 25, 2006
    What we've done in the past:

    -migration from one exchange org to another
    -mailbox recovery through the recovery storage group

    Anticipated future uses:
    -"dialtone" restore of a database
    -more mailbox recoveries through the RSG
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Feb 25, 2006
    hey... regulations are such, in the industry I work in, that our internal audit regularly have to use exmerge to "copy" data to CD/DVD and sent it to the investigations team.

    its extremely important to us, outside of the excellent points Anthony has already made..

    cheers
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Feb 25, 2006
    Imagine your DR plan doesn't work out, you are left with a primary site down and secondary site to fix.
    To minimise service disruption you do a dial-tone recovery, problem there is that the new mailbox is empty with no calendar/contacts/emails.
    so if you have a 2nd DR plan you can automate xmerge to constantly feed a dialtone system.