• Microsoft Exchange Server

    Bulk Exporting of PST Files Using Exmerge

    To automate the process of exporting Exchange mailboxes to .pst files, we’re going to use the exmerge tool using a Windows batch file. We can use a MAILBOXES.TXT file to choose which mailboxes we’ll be using and possibly a SUBJECTS.TXT or ATTACHMENTS.TXT to constrain our searches. To run the exmerge, run as a typical GUI based merge but save the search. Once saved, you’ll be able to select a path, which we’ll call c:\tmpexmerge. In here, you should see an EXMERGE.INI as well as a MAILBOXES.TXT (and possibly a few other files. In the MAILBOXES.TXT file you’ll see the CN information for the mailboxes selected in the previous: /O=FIRST ORGANIZATION/OU=FIRST…