Exchange 2010 – Exmerge has been Exmerged!

Exchange 2010 – Exmerge has been Exmerged!

In previous versions of Exchange exmerge was the tool used to move or fix emailboxs. Unfortunately in Exchange 2010 SP1 exmerge has been replaced by the “New-MailboxExportRequest” command. However there are a few prerequisites that need to be completed before you can run the export.

Make sure you have a share you have proper access to or create one:

 

I just directed the export it to my share where I do my Exchange backups so I knew I had the correct permissions.

 

#1 - New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Role “Mailbox Import Export” –User “adm_polaski”

You need to give yourself rights to Import/Export mailboxes. This is not given to admins by default. You must assign the rights.

#2 - New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox Kumaran -FilePath "\\usn002\exchbackup\Kumaran_Recovered.pst"

You should receive the input that the MailboxExport is queued.

 

#3 - Get-MailboxExportRequest | Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics

This will give you the progress report just like the screen shot below for the Mailbox Import

 

#4 - Get-MailboxExportRequest | Remove-MailboxExportRequest

If you want to remove then request or Get-MailboxExportRequest to see all the requests.

 

#5 - New-MailboxImportRequest -Mailbox Kumaran -FilePath "\\usn002\exchbackup\Kumaran_Recovered.pst"

This command will import the export mailbox back in to the mailbox database.

 

#6 - Get-MailboxImportRequest | Get-MailboxImportRequestStatistics

To view the import progress.