Vista - Exchange 2007: cross org mailbox migration bulk from csv file

Hi all

I am trying to migrate Exchange 2003 mailboxes in one forest, to
exchange 2007 in another forest.

I can do it with the following script:

get-mailbox -domaincontroller 'sourceDC' -credential $s -identity
'name@xxxxxx' | move-mailbox -Targetdatabase 'EX2007\mailbox
database' -sourceforestglobalcatalog 'sourceGC' -globalcatalog
'targetGC' -domaincontroller 'targetDC' -sourcemailboxcleanupoptions
none -SourceForestCredential $s-targetforestcredential $t -confirm:
$false

This script works correctly for single mailboxes.

What i need to do now, is get the -identity command to read from
either a .csv file or a .txt file (Whichever is easier) so that i can
migrate mailboxes in batches.

i would also like to wrap it up into a .ps1 script

Could someone help me?

Cheers

Ian

Create a CSV file with one column named "Identity" and add the names one
per line.

Import-Csv automatically creates an object with properties that corresponds
to the names of the columns.
That way you can remove the -identity paramater from the command cause it's
going to be piped
to get-mailbox from Import-Csv.


import-csv names.csv | get-mailbox -domaincontroller 'sourceDC' -credential
$s | move-mailbox -Targetdatabase .....


See Recipe 2.5 from "Windows PowerShell Cookbook" by Lee Holmes.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528492/index.html



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BEWARE, always add the -whatif parameter before applying it in production!

Good Luck.

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On Jan 9, 12:54*pm, Shay Levi <n...@xxxxxx> wrote:Thanks mate, i will try that now

Cheers

E

On Jan 9, 12:54*pm, Shay Levi <n...@xxxxxx> wrote:hi again

thanks for that, i will work, i just have one other question...

in the source domain, i only have one 2003 DC, and if the script looks
at either of the other 2 2000 DCs, it fails. Could you look at my
script above and tell me where i can specify the 2003 DC?

Thanks again

Ian

I can see that you already specified it, as in:

get-mailbox -domaincontroller 'sourceDC'...

or am I missing something?

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On Jan 9, 1:57*pm, Shay Levi <n...@xxxxxx> wrote:no - thats what i thought - it is specified in the get-mailbox
command, but when i run my script it fails with the version needs to
be 5.2 or above error, then shows that the SourceDomainController it
tried to use was one of our 2000 ones... seems strange

cheers

E

Along the lines of the solution Shay posted, in your CSV, you'd need to
add perhaps another column named "domaincontroller", and have the proper
DC in the CSV file associated with each user.

Maco

Can you tell which cmdlet is causing the error? get-mailbox or move-mailbox?
Can you post the error? replace the computer names if its confedential.

Another thing you can try, run the script on the 2003 DC without specifying
source DC parameters?


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