Exchange 2007 PST Extraction

Must run on 32-bit Windows, XP or higher, with Exchange Management Tools installed. Outlook 2007+ gives best results. Take note of the number of corrupted items. There's a switch for BadItemLimit that increases the number of corrupted items before the whole export bails. I think default is 10. If you see a lot of corrupted items, though, you might want to investigate issues with the mailbox or server. If an item gets flagged as corrupt, then export-mailbox skips it.

Further related link dump that I've found useful

http//msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/04/13/437745.aspx

http//msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/11/28/431669.aspx

http//technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998579.aspx

I have a article on my blog that walks you through the process step by step..

http//davnads.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

Hope this helps!

I have a article on my blog that walks you through the process step by step..

Sounds like you were collecting directly on the server itself, which was 64-bit, and thus painful. Microsoft really screwed the pooch on this one. I'm sure some of us remember when Exchange 2007 didn't even have an export tool after it was first released. It wasn't until SP1 that export-mailbox even existed! Fun stuff.

I have a article on my blog that walks you through the process step by step..

http//davnads.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

Hope this helps!

Good write-up…thanks for sharing!

Will be interesting to see how Exchange Server 2010 with its slant on archiving, legal hold and discovery features will work. Has anyone seen it in the wild yet?

We're slated for Exchange 2010 in Q1 and Q2 this year, global roll-out in 3 data centres (EU, US, Australia) covering approx 10,000 users in over 40 countries.

We've got Symantec Enterprise Vault (EV) already (IT decision to save space and time on Exchange backups), will be interesting to see how this progresses. It's hard enough trying to do mail searches on Mailbox and EV as it is without complicating the issue further with Exchange archiving.

Ho hum. What fun ?