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Craig Brown's avatar
Craig Brown
Brass Contributor
Aug 18, 2016

Copy contents of one mailbox to another

Good afternoon,   I have a bit of an interesting issue.  I have a department that has split into two departments.  The "new" department, department1 is keeping the name of the old department, and t...
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Craig Brown's avatar
Craig Brown
Brass Contributor
Aug 18, 2016

Just an update, I tried with the PST import, and specified / for the TargetFolder in the Input Map File, and it still creates a folder of the old mailbox name under the root of the mailbox. 

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    Mike Platvoet
    Iron Contributor
    Sep 01, 2016

    Craig, Cary is essentially right with the answer:

    If you use Outlook then you can grant yourself access to both shared mailboxes. They should appear in Outlook on the tree on the left. Open both mailboxes, go to the folders in mailbox 1 and drag and drop the subfolders from the department 1 mailbox to the department 2 mailbox (Inbox).

     

    The same can be done with the messages that are in Inbox: select all messages (by using CTRL+A) and drag them to the department 2 mailbox. Allow some time to complete the move, so don't close Outlook to quickly.

    Do this for all folders (Sent and Deleted items) and your Department 1 mailbox is cleaned up.

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