Moving Mailboxes from 2003 to 2007, 2 have a corrupt message

[TNGPicard]

I have all except for two users moved over to Ex 2007 now (wahooo!). My two problem child users are the only two mailboxes which had problems. Their mailboxes have one or more corrupt messages and thus didn't move (which is the option I used to move the mailboxes with).

Now of course, if I just skip these messages and then remove the boxes from the 03 server, the messages will of course be the most important message and it didn't move over.

How do I find / Fix / repair / move these two problem mailboxes?

Mark / TNGPicard

 

[ShackDaddy]

Check the Exchange Server\Logging\Migration Log directory on the new server and see if you can identify from the logs which messages were corrupt and then hunt them down. If the log tells you that the messages were trivial (you can probably tell by subjectname), then raise the threshold of the number of corrupt messages and push the migration through.

Personally, if there are less than 100 corrupt messages in a large mailbox, I don't worry about it. Normally those are objects that you'd have to delete at some point anyway when they start causing problems.

If there are more than 100 corrupt messages, then you may want to look at some other options, including restoring that mailbox from a previous backup to an RSG on the old box and seeing if the same corruption existed there.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting