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Power Shell: Copy Mailbox??

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oyazo

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Apr 14, 2008
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Hello Friends,

We used Exchange 2007 in our environment.

We desire to use PowerShell to copy mailboxes to another server on the same LAN but i don't know PowerShell to use.

1:: Somebody should kindly give me cmdlet to copy (Not MOVE) mailboxes from a mailstore (Database) on one server to another mailstore (Database)on the othe other.

2:: I will also like to know how long it will take to copy 100GB of Mailboxes from one server to the other.

Thank you for you help.

Oyazo



 
1. You'll likely need to do an export-mailbox to a .pst file, then import-mailbox on the other server.

2. No idea. Can't say without knowing the environment, but look for it to take quite a few hours.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
 
I don't think you can copy mailboxes with a direct cmdlet. How would a client then connect to the mailbox when there are two active copies?
 
My intention is to copy mailboxes to another server while keeping the original one.

Im doing this to ensure that the original mailbox is intact if there is problem during the copy.

Thank you all.

Oyazo

 
Well, then, if your intent is to then have the user start using the "new" mailbox (once the copy completes), you can't do that.

You would need to move the mailbox.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
 
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