Recovering from Exchange disaster - help loading data

There are several ways you can handle this.

Option 1 : Use the Get-MailboxImportRequest commandlet to import the people's PST files back into their mailboxes.  We use this every time we need to migrate from one exchange organization to another.  This is available for Exchange 2010 SP1.  On Exchange 2007, you can do pretty much the same thing but it's a bit more complex because you have to set up a 2nd machine which has the 32 bit version of the exchange management console, plus outlook 2007 installed.  On Exchange 2003, you would use EXMERGE to merge in the mail files to the mail databases.

Option 2 : Using outlook, use File -> Open -> Import -> Import from another program or file -> OUtlook Data File (.pst) -> Do not import duplicates.  This you will have to do at the client side.

Option 1 is much nicer :)  Here are some commands you may find useful, but please read up on the Internet about them first.

The following command will give members of the Universal Security Group "Mailbox Import" (which you have to create beforehand) the ability to do mail exports and imports

New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Name "Import Export Mailbox Admins" -SecurityGroup "Mailbox Import" -Role "Mailbox Import Export"

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The following queues up a mailbox import. You MUST use a UNC and therefore you may have to play around with permissions on the data source where all the PST's are sitting.

New-MailboxImportRequest -Mailbox trond.skagestad -FilePath \\mgmt11.mgmt.local\PST\trond.skagestad.pst -ConflictResolutionOption KeepLatestItem -BadItemLimit 10

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The following shows you the queues, and also shows you the status of how things are.

Get-MailboxImportRequest | Get-MailboxImportRequestStatistics | ft Status,TargetAlias,Percent*,BytesTransferred*

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The following can remove stuff from the queue, based on their current status.

Get-MailboxImportRequest -Status InProgress | Remove-MailboxImportRequest
Get-MailboxImportRequest -Status Queued | Remove-MailboxImportRequest
Get-MailboxImportRequest -Status Completed | Remove-MailboxImportRequest
Get-MailboxImportRequest -Status Failed | Remove-MailboxImportRequest

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Hello,

If your server was not Exchange 2007 / 20010 but good old Exchange 2003, you will want to use Exmerge Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=2743

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It will allow you to bulk import Items from PST selecting the starting date and ending date of elements you want to import

Regards,

Gerald

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Thanks for the points!