SysAdmin Talk

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.

With the new online Move-Mailbox functionality in Exchange Server 2010, invoked by calling the New-MoveRequest cmdlet, the time a mailbox is offline has been reduced to only seconds, and as such the end-user experience has been greatly improved.

There’s a mystery about early Exchange 2010 deployments:  despite the much-publicized removal of single instance storage, sizes of Exchange 2010 databases have not increased. The same message has trickling back from all quarters, as businesses go live:  after moving mailboxes, database sizes in Exchange 2010 are roughly the same as they were in Exchange 2007.

I admit that I’ve been a bit hypersensitive to trends that tend to disperse central IT departments (Exhibit A and Exhibit B on this blog). As a result I was a little surprised to see this press release from Riverbed Technologies. The title “Riverbed Survey Shows Businesses Are Rapidly Moving Toward IT Consolidation”, knocked me back for a moment.