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Error - Moving Mailboxes form Exchange 2003 to 2007

Asked by: aliomarb

Hi Experts

I get the following error message when trying to move user mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to 2007.
Any suggestions ????

<Result IsWarning="False" ErrorCode="-1056749164">Error occurred in the step: Moving messages. Failed to copy messages to the destination mailbox store with error: MAPI or an unspecified service provider. ID no: 00000000-0000-00000000</Result>

Thanks & Regards
--Ali

ErrorCode="-1056749164">Error occurred in the step: Moving messages

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2009-05-27 at 00:52:50ID24440616
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Exchange 2003; Exchange 2007

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Moving Mailbox

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Exchange Email Server

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Answers

 

by: KevinBallPosted on 2009-05-27 at 01:20:25ID: 24480794

That looks like a permissions issue to me.  Are both these servers in the same Exchange organization?

 

by: RancyPosted on 2009-05-27 at 01:28:32ID: 24480824

Can you try from the console and please mention the
1. Verify that the Stores are up and running on both the servers. Also verify that you can create a new mailbox on Exchange 2007.
2. Bad limit count to ignore corruption with a limit of "1000".
3. Provide the GC and DC the server that is a GC and holds the FSMO roles.

Can you give more info about the E2K3 and E2K7 version and number of mailboxes and Stores.

 

by: vikasjusPosted on 2009-05-27 at 02:56:54ID: 24481282

Error can be because of corrupted messages in these mail box. You can try running ISINTIG and repair database. other thing you can do is move them to different mail store within same 2k3 exchange server and then from there move it to 2k7 exchange.

 

by: aliomarbPosted on 2009-05-27 at 03:03:45ID: 24481316

Both Exchange Servers are in the same Organization
Stores are up and running.
I can create mailboxes in the New Exchagne 2007 Server
I have also tried by providing the GC and DC names individually.

From where can I modify the Bad Limit Count ?

 

by: RancyPosted on 2009-05-27 at 03:16:14ID: 24481390

Are you running a EMS or EMC ?
Run the Move mailbox from the GUI from EMC and where you provide the info about the GC and DC on the sam epage on the top you would see Skip Corrupt Messages try with a value of may be 2500

 

by: RancyPosted on 2009-05-28 at 01:25:26ID: 24490693

So after excluding the Corrupted messages were we able to move the mailboxes successfully ?

 

by: RancyPosted on 2009-05-29 at 05:44:13ID: 24502276

Hello aliomarb were we able to move the mailboxes sucessfully ?

 

by: aliomarbPosted on 2009-05-30 at 23:49:21ID: 24511642

Something weird.
If I create new users in Exchange 2003 and try moving them to Exchange 2007 - It works.
But the existing users (old) in Exchange 2003 are not able to move to 2007.
Strange.

Any advise...........

 

by: RancyPosted on 2009-05-31 at 23:38:55ID: 24515394

Yeah if there is any corrupted messages and we do not specify to "skip corrupted messages" to a value it would fail as it finds corruption and cannot ignore by default.

 

by: aliomarbPosted on 2009-06-01 at 22:07:56ID: 24524034

But you know what, its doing that with all mailboxes, even if I increase the bad mail threshold.

 

by: JoWickermanPosted on 2009-06-01 at 23:37:49ID: 24524275

Hi aliomarb,

Run this command before you run the import-mailbox command for each user.

Add-mailboxpermission -identity <mailbox you are importing to> -accessrights fullaccess -user <who you are logged in as when running the exchange managment shell>

Hope this helps.

Cheers

 

by: RancyPosted on 2009-06-01 at 23:56:19ID: 24524319

Try dismounting the old store and run Isinteg as there could be some logical corruption.
Also is the old server Std or Ent ?
Do we get any error events on the old server ?
The reason is this looks like some corruption issue. Do one thing try increasing the BAd limit to 5000 and move one mailbox and if you get any error share the error from the GUI as well as from the app or sys logs.

 

by: limjiananPosted on 2009-06-02 at 17:31:20ID: 24532624

hi,

what version of exchange 2003 and exchange 2007 are you on?

try exchange 2003 SP2 and exchange 2007 sp1 rollup 8

also, please also make sure all exchange 2007 services is up (some services will stop itself without a reason sometimes when you doing administrative task)

just make sure all the one who have automatic start should be started...



Also, how big is the size of the mailbox ?
sometimes it might trigger a stop if it is too big (just guessing for this one)

 

by: justinckyPosted on 2010-06-17 at 12:00:17ID: 33015448

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Rollup 4 fixed the problem for me.

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