Monday, March 16, 2009

Import-Mailbox cmdlet Error.

So in working for a client they had a need to import Exchange 2003 mailboxes cross-forest. This seemed pretty straight-forward according to Microsoft's articles on TechNet and so forth. However as we are all aware things rarely go as planned.

According to MS the process is as follows:
1) Exmerge out the mailbox to a PST.
2) Copy the PST over to a client machine since you cannot Import on an Exchange Server.
3) Open the Exchange Management Shell and run Import-Mailbox ...
4) Be happy since it worked.

Well steps 3 and 4 are kind of a no go for me.

I have verified that the account that I am using has Full Access to the mailbox. Also the account is an Exchange Org Admin and an Exchange Server Admin. This account is a local admin on the client and server as well.

According to all the documentation this should be relatively easy and work once all these are set. But alas I have now had to call PSS. Let's see what they can come up with and where we go from here.

The error that I continuously get is here:
because: 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, error code: -1056749164


C-SQD

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