Exmerge via Script

We can perform bulk exmerge from different mailbox stores on the same exchange server and also schedule it. This sounds cool .. isn't it .. This is true as well.

So how will we do this .. All we need is legacyDN for all users for whom we need to perform exmerge.

How to get it ? One way is to write a script and the other way is csvde
I will explain the second one and if you need the first way then mail me ..

csvde -s -d "ou=users,ou=china,dc=rishimakeiteasy,dc=com" -l displayname,legacyexchangeDN -f exmergedata.txt

The output file exmergedata.txt will have the contents that you need. Open the file is excel and get the desired result. The input file only needs the legacyexchangeDN value.

Step 1 : Create a input file e.g exmergeusers.txt and add all legacyexhangeDN values one per line.

Step 2 : Open exmerge.ini file from the exmerge folder and make the changes to the following sections -

MergeAction
Should be set to the default (which is MergeAction=0) this means that EXMERGE is looking to export only.
SourceServerName
This value needs to the set to the name of the Exchange server that we are going to extracting data from - for example SourceServerName=MyServer
DataDirectoryName
The is the directory where you wish for the PST files to be placed - be mindful that the location needs to have enough space to accomodate the exported files.
FileContainingListOfMailboxes
The FileContainingListOfMailboxes value should be teh patch where you save exmergeusers.txt

Step 3 : Create a batch file e.g exmergestart.bat. Contents of the file are :

C:
CD c:\program files\exchsrvr\bin\
EXMERGE -F EXMERGE.INI -B

Now you are ready to trigger the batch file also it can be added to a schedule task. Remember to do this is off production hours.

Blackberry users are not able to send emails or perform address lookup

I am back from a well deservered break and as I wrote in the last blog .. My travel to the woods was great .. the bad part was that I was not well during my stay at the woods .. Life is changing at a great speed .. Both professionally and personally.

I will write about my self after a month ... Lets get on with some t/s.

I encountered a problem that Blackberry users were not able to send emails but were able to recieve. Another thing missing was that the GAL lookup. This was strange and was happening with all users.

On checking the event logs and BB logs I found this :

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: BlackBerry Messaging Agent DNT037 Agent 4
Event Category: None
Event ID: 20265
Date: 1/22/2009
Time: 5:31:50 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DNT037
Description:
{TPI00761} MAPIMailbox::~MAPIMailbox - DeleteAllDeviceSearches (0x00000000) failed

This points to connnectivity of BES server to the exchange. Thus, we need to restart BB services and the issue is resolved.

On digging deep I came to a conclusion that this happens after Exchange servers are patched and rebooted. So as a practice whenever exchange servers are rebooted that should be followed by a reboot of the BES server.