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.
I was going through the laborious task of manually importing PST files into Exchange 2010 SP1 beta and I hit a bug:
Error:
Error was found for (username) because: Error occurred in the step: Approving object. An unknown error
has occurred., error code: -2147221219
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (0:Int32) [Import-Mailbox], RecipientTaskException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CFFD629B,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.ImportMailbox
Here is how I worked round it.
When you configure the first Domain Controller for your organization using the Active Directory Installation Wizard (or dcpromo for short), it is configured with all five FSMO roles by default. Here I will cover how you can view and transfer the specific FSMO roles of various Domain Controllers in your domain. As this is a short how-to article, I won’t go into the specific details of when you would need to transfer roles, but in short you may want to take a certain domain controller down for maintenance one day and may find it necessary to transfer some, or all of these roles.
To start with you will obviously require more than one Domain Controller in your Windows domain. In my case I have a “Primary” and “Secondary” domain controller called “NOOBS-DC1″ and “NOOBS-DC2″.