SysAdmin Talk

I previously wrote a series of 3 articles explaining how to use the Exchange Management Shell to import PST files into Exchange 2010 mailboxes. To support these I am now creating a series of 3 videos. In this, the first video I look at identifying the machine names of the computers on your network for use in a subsequent search for PST files.

In the next video I will go through finding PST files on your network.

All users in your Exchange organization are automatically listed in the Global Address List. When you have multiple departments, or maybe multiple companies (sometime also referred to as organizations, but this has nothing to do with the Exchange organization) in your Exchange organization you may want to organize or split up the Address List.

In the previous part of this guide we looked at gaining a list of PST files and machines. In this, the final part of this series, we will look at how to import these into Exchange 2010.

In the last part of this guide the process for importing a local PST file into exchange server was shown. However, in reality it is likely that these PST files are scattered liberally around your network on the hard drives of your users machines as a result of Outlooks personal archiving. Ideally – so that this process is transparent to your users, you’d like some way of finding all these PST files – pairing them up with their users, and importing them into the appropriate mailbox. Here I show you how.