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Old 06-05-2008   #5 (permalink)
Oisin (x0n) Grehan [MVP]


 
 

Re: Can the copy-item cmdlet be used to copy public folders to C: ?

On Jun 4, 8:51 pm, JoshGfromPortland
<JoshGfromPortl...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:

> Copying public folders via Outlook has a limitation on the number of
> items/emails that can be copied at once. When you have a large number of
> items, this makes copying very difficult to do manually. I'm hoping
> Powershell can do this better.
>
> 1. Is the copy-item cmdlet usable with public folders?
>
> 2. Can the copy-item cmdlet be used to copy an Exchange public folder to the
> regular file system (i.e. C:\ drive)?
>
> 3. If the copy-item cmdlet cannot do this, is there a different command in
> Powershell that would be sufficient for this purpose?
>
> Our Specs:
> Exchange 2007
> Windows 2003 x64 Edition
>
> Thanks for any information and ideas,
>
> Josh
> SERA Architects
Hi Josh

If you have a sharepoint instance running somewhere, you can use:

http://www.codeplex.com/pfmigration/...ReleaseId=7674

....to put your public folders into a sharepoint site. You can then
copy them out of sharepoint to a local drive quite easily as all
sharepoint sites can be accessed via UNC syntax to expose the files
within (allowing you to do a drag and drop via explorer).

I can't offer you any help with this tool as I've never used it, but I
just remembered it from finding it in the process of looking for
something else ;-)

btw, if you don't have sharepoint anywhere, your Windows Server 2003
can add a local instance as a feature very easily (WSS 2.0).

Hope this helps,

- Oisin
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