Exmerge   

I am attempting to utilize exmerge for some administration tasks. I want to 
be able to use it to export a terminated employees mailbox to a pst file for 
archiving purposes and then remove the user and mailbox from the system. The 
problem I am having is with running exmerge from a workstation. If I attempt 
to run from a remote workstation exmerge fails when loading the list of 
mailboxes. The user account I am using to run exmerge under has access to 
all mailboxes for this purpose. Here is where it gets interesting, if I 
attempt to run exmerge from the server running as the domain admin (which 
was used to install exchange in the fisrt place), I get the list of 
mailboxes, but it fails during the export process (which makes sense because 
Domain Admins are set with DENY access to user mailboxes), but what makes 
the whole scenario strange is that if (while logged in as domain admin on 
the exchange server) I use the run as command and specify the user account I 
am trying to use on the workstation, then exmerge runs successfully. 
Obviously there is some permission somewhere that I need to change, 
unfortunately I dont know what that is. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Rob

date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:17:55 -0400   author:   Rob Hogan rhogan-nospam-@vupsdotorg

RE: Exmerge   

Hey Rob

I use ExMerge directly in the Exchange Server, running it as a Scheduled Task.
First at all, I run ExMerge in grafhical mode, and save the ini files, then 
add a new Scheduled Task with the -B option at the end of the line ...

Good Luck
Jorge Perez
UY


"Rob Hogan" wrote:

> I am attempting to utilize exmerge for some administration tasks. I want to 
> be able to use it to export a terminated employees mailbox to a pst file for 
> archiving purposes and then remove the user and mailbox from the system. The 
> problem I am having is with running exmerge from a workstation. If I attempt 
> to run from a remote workstation exmerge fails when loading the list of 
> mailboxes. The user account I am using to run exmerge under has access to 
> all mailboxes for this purpose. Here is where it gets interesting, if I 
> attempt to run exmerge from the server running as the domain admin (which 
> was used to install exchange in the fisrt place), I get the list of 
> mailboxes, but it fails during the export process (which makes sense because 
> Domain Admins are set with DENY access to user mailboxes), but what makes 
> the whole scenario strange is that if (while logged in as domain admin on 
> the exchange server) I use the run as command and specify the user account I 
> am trying to use on the workstation, then exmerge runs successfully. 
> Obviously there is some permission somewhere that I need to change, 
> unfortunately I dont know what that is. Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Rob 
> 
> 
>

date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:41:01 -0700   author:   Jorge Perez - UY Jorge Perez -

Re: Exmerge   

Jorge,

    Thanks for the reply. What you propose would more than likely work 
great, but I think my issue is more of a permissions issue than a function 
of scheduling. I have had issues with using the Exchange System Manager 
under the same login, even after giving myself what I believe are the 
correct permissions, I still cannot do many things in the ESM that I can do 
if logged onto the machine as the admin. I believe the issue I am having 
here, if solved, would correct my issues with the ESM as well. Perhaps I 
should go at this from the other direction instead.
Thanks,
Rob
"Jorge Perez - UY" <Jorge Perez - UY@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
message news:E6618D8E-E5DB-41C4-BF0C-DF63FFD84FE6@microsoft.com...
>
> Hey Rob
>
> I use ExMerge directly in the Exchange Server, running it as a Scheduled 
> Task.
> First at all, I run ExMerge in grafhical mode, and save the ini files, 
> then
> add a new Scheduled Task with the -B option at the end of the line ...
>
> Good Luck
> Jorge Perez
> UY
>
>
> "Rob Hogan" wrote:
>
>> I am attempting to utilize exmerge for some administration tasks. I want 
>> to
>> be able to use it to export a terminated employees mailbox to a pst file 
>> for
>> archiving purposes and then remove the user and mailbox from the system. 
>> The
>> problem I am having is with running exmerge from a workstation. If I 
>> attempt
>> to run from a remote workstation exmerge fails when loading the list of
>> mailboxes. The user account I am using to run exmerge under has access to
>> all mailboxes for this purpose. Here is where it gets interesting, if I
>> attempt to run exmerge from the server running as the domain admin (which
>> was used to install exchange in the fisrt place), I get the list of
>> mailboxes, but it fails during the export process (which makes sense 
>> because
>> Domain Admins are set with DENY access to user mailboxes), but what makes
>> the whole scenario strange is that if (while logged in as domain admin on
>> the exchange server) I use the run as command and specify the user 
>> account I
>> am trying to use on the workstation, then exmerge runs successfully.
>> Obviously there is some permission somewhere that I need to change,
>> unfortunately I dont know what that is. Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>

date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:26:03 -0400   author:   Rob Hogan rhogan-nospam-@vupsdotorg