User on Multiple Mailbox Stores...?

[fatboy1271]

I set Exchange 2003 to move about 15 mailboxes from 5.5 last night. I had seven different instances running at different times (boxes moving to different stores). Two of the boxes ended up making a new mailbox on the 2003 server and leaving all the old info on the 5.5 server. This has happened with two other boxes and I cannot find anything online about how to "merge" the boxes back together so that the user has all his emails... anyone have any idea on what to do to fix this?!?

 

[fatboy1271]

I just found out that the defrag on the DB had started while the mailboxes were being moved. Now I know the cause... if only I knew how to fix it.

 

[ntinlin]

You can use exmerge for this if you can't get anything else to work.

Merge out the data from the 5.5 to a PST then merge in to the 2003 mailbox. Depending on your naming convention you might have to rename the PST to the 2003 mailbox alias.

Neill

 

[fatboy1271]

Hey ntinlin,

I figured exmerge was an option (I've never used it, but it sounds like a good name for doing this kind of stuff). My questions though is this: where do I run exmerge from? I can't get into the mailbox on the 5.5 server using outlook and that's the one that I need to pull the data from.

Thanks

 

[fatboy1271]

Well, my boss was able to pull emails from backups and throw them in the new box. Thanks for the help.