RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items
Just a quick note to say that, with my boss, I'm going to be deleting and recreating this user's mailbox. Mdbvu32 looks slightly scary if I'm honest J From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 19:35 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Thanks Kevin and Michael for your assistance. This sounds like a good plan, I'll try it on a test mailbox first, then proceed with the live mailbox (after a backup of course!) Richard From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 15:50 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Delete the Contacts folder instead, then run outlook /resetfolders. You can delete the Contact or other default folder with a ugly client like MDBVU32. From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 7:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Why not exmerge out everything but the contacts, delete the mailbox, create a new mailbox and exmerge back in. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I think you are running into the maximum size of a delete transaction. I would probably open the mailbox in Outlook and put someone to deleting a few thousand at a time, or develop a script. It should be pretty easy, but you should test test test! ' CDO 1.x folder constants Public Const CdoDefaultFolderCalendar = 0 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderContacts = 5 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderDeletedItems = 4 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderInbox = 1 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderJournal = 6 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderNotes = 7 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderOutbox = 2 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderSentItems = 3 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderTasks = 8 Dim objSession, objFolder ' Create MAPI session Set objSession = CreateObject(MAPI.Session) ' logon using an new MAPI session with a dynamically created profile strProfileInfo = Your Servername vbLf Your Mailbox objSession.Logon , , False, True, 0, False, strProfileInfo ''' or connect to a MAPI session already in progress ''' objSession.Logon , , False, False, 0 ' Get the default contacts folder Set objFolder = objSession.GetDefaultFolder(CdoDefaultFolderContacts) ' get the item collection Set objCollection = objFolder.Messages ' get first contact Set objContact = objCollection.GetFirst() ' Loop through the collection Do While Not objContact Is Nothing objContact.Delete ' Get next message Set objContact = objCollection.GetNext() Loop objSession.Logoff Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 5:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Sorry, I'm trying to get rid of them in preparation for exmerging back in a proper version of the contacts (i.e. only a few thousand with no duplicates!) Richard From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 10:09 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I don't understand your objective. Are you trying to delete all of those contacts? Or just get a copy of them elsewhere? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmerge limit on no. of items I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain privileged, confidential, or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under law. If you have received this message in error, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. Thank you. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items
Why not use the Mailbox Manager to wipe it out over nite? Nikki From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Just a quick note to say that, with my boss, I'm going to be deleting and recreating this user's mailbox. Mdbvu32 looks slightly scary if I'm honest J From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 19:35 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Thanks Kevin and Michael for your assistance. This sounds like a good plan, I'll try it on a test mailbox first, then proceed with the live mailbox (after a backup of course!) Richard From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 15:50 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Delete the Contacts folder instead, then run outlook /resetfolders. You can delete the Contact or other default folder with a ugly client like MDBVU32. From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 7:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Why not exmerge out everything but the contacts, delete the mailbox, create a new mailbox and exmerge back in. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I think you are running into the maximum size of a delete transaction. I would probably open the mailbox in Outlook and put someone to deleting a few thousand at a time, or develop a script. It should be pretty easy, but you should test test test! ' CDO 1.x folder constants Public Const CdoDefaultFolderCalendar = 0 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderContacts = 5 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderDeletedItems = 4 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderInbox = 1 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderJournal = 6 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderNotes = 7 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderOutbox = 2 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderSentItems = 3 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderTasks = 8 Dim objSession, objFolder ' Create MAPI session Set objSession = CreateObject(MAPI.Session) ' logon using an new MAPI session with a dynamically created profile strProfileInfo = Your Servername vbLf Your Mailbox objSession.Logon , , False, True, 0, False, strProfileInfo ''' or connect to a MAPI session already in progress ''' objSession.Logon , , False, False, 0 ' Get the default contacts folder Set objFolder = objSession.GetDefaultFolder(CdoDefaultFolderContacts) ' get the item collection Set objCollection = objFolder.Messages ' get first contact Set objContact = objCollection.GetFirst() ' Loop through the collection Do While Not objContact Is Nothing objContact.Delete ' Get next message Set objContact = objCollection.GetNext() Loop objSession.Logoff Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 5:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Sorry, I'm trying to get rid of them in preparation for exmerging back in a proper version of the contacts (i.e. only a few thousand with no duplicates!) Richard From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 10:09 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I don't understand your objective. Are you trying to delete all of those contacts? Or just get a copy of them elsewhere? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmerge limit on no. of items I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain privileged, confidential, or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under law. If you have received this message in error, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. Thank you. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Exmerge limit on no. of items
I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items
I don't understand your objective. Are you trying to delete all of those contacts? Or just get a copy of them elsewhere? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmerge limit on no. of items I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items
Sorry, I'm trying to get rid of them in preparation for exmerging back in a proper version of the contacts (i.e. only a few thousand with no duplicates!) Richard From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 10:09 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I don't understand your objective. Are you trying to delete all of those contacts? Or just get a copy of them elsewhere? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmerge limit on no. of items I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items
I think you are running into the maximum size of a delete transaction. I would probably open the mailbox in Outlook and put someone to deleting a few thousand at a time, or develop a script. It should be pretty easy, but you should test test test! ' CDO 1.x folder constants Public Const CdoDefaultFolderCalendar = 0 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderContacts = 5 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderDeletedItems = 4 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderInbox = 1 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderJournal = 6 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderNotes = 7 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderOutbox = 2 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderSentItems = 3 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderTasks = 8 Dim objSession, objFolder ' Create MAPI session Set objSession = CreateObject(MAPI.Session) ' logon using an new MAPI session with a dynamically created profile strProfileInfo = Your Servername vbLf Your Mailbox objSession.Logon , , False, True, 0, False, strProfileInfo ''' or connect to a MAPI session already in progress ''' objSession.Logon , , False, False, 0 ' Get the default contacts folder Set objFolder = objSession.GetDefaultFolder(CdoDefaultFolderContacts) ' get the item collection Set objCollection = objFolder.Messages ' get first contact Set objContact = objCollection.GetFirst() ' Loop through the collection Do While Not objContact Is Nothing objContact.Delete ' Get next message Set objContact = objCollection.GetNext() Loop objSession.Logoff Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 5:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Sorry, I'm trying to get rid of them in preparation for exmerging back in a proper version of the contacts (i.e. only a few thousand with no duplicates!) Richard From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 10:09 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I don't understand your objective. Are you trying to delete all of those contacts? Or just get a copy of them elsewhere? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmerge limit on no. of items I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items
Why not exmerge out everything but the contacts, delete the mailbox, create a new mailbox and exmerge back in. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I think you are running into the maximum size of a delete transaction. I would probably open the mailbox in Outlook and put someone to deleting a few thousand at a time, or develop a script. It should be pretty easy, but you should test test test! ' CDO 1.x folder constants Public Const CdoDefaultFolderCalendar = 0 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderContacts = 5 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderDeletedItems = 4 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderInbox = 1 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderJournal = 6 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderNotes = 7 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderOutbox = 2 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderSentItems = 3 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderTasks = 8 Dim objSession, objFolder ' Create MAPI session Set objSession = CreateObject(MAPI.Session) ' logon using an new MAPI session with a dynamically created profile strProfileInfo = Your Servername vbLf Your Mailbox objSession.Logon , , False, True, 0, False, strProfileInfo ''' or connect to a MAPI session already in progress ''' objSession.Logon , , False, False, 0 ' Get the default contacts folder Set objFolder = objSession.GetDefaultFolder(CdoDefaultFolderContacts) ' get the item collection Set objCollection = objFolder.Messages ' get first contact Set objContact = objCollection.GetFirst() ' Loop through the collection Do While Not objContact Is Nothing objContact.Delete ' Get next message Set objContact = objCollection.GetNext() Loop objSession.Logoff Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 5:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Sorry, I'm trying to get rid of them in preparation for exmerging back in a proper version of the contacts (i.e. only a few thousand with no duplicates!) Richard From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 10:09 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I don't understand your objective. Are you trying to delete all of those contacts? Or just get a copy of them elsewhere? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmerge limit on no. of items I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items
Delete the Contacts folder instead, then run outlook /resetfolders. You can delete the Contact or other default folder with a ugly client like MDBVU32. From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 7:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Why not exmerge out everything but the contacts, delete the mailbox, create a new mailbox and exmerge back in. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I think you are running into the maximum size of a delete transaction. I would probably open the mailbox in Outlook and put someone to deleting a few thousand at a time, or develop a script. It should be pretty easy, but you should test test test! ' CDO 1.x folder constants Public Const CdoDefaultFolderCalendar = 0 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderContacts = 5 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderDeletedItems = 4 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderInbox = 1 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderJournal = 6 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderNotes = 7 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderOutbox = 2 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderSentItems = 3 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderTasks = 8 Dim objSession, objFolder ' Create MAPI session Set objSession = CreateObject(MAPI.Session) ' logon using an new MAPI session with a dynamically created profile strProfileInfo = Your Servername vbLf Your Mailbox objSession.Logon , , False, True, 0, False, strProfileInfo ''' or connect to a MAPI session already in progress ''' objSession.Logon , , False, False, 0 ' Get the default contacts folder Set objFolder = objSession.GetDefaultFolder(CdoDefaultFolderContacts) ' get the item collection Set objCollection = objFolder.Messages ' get first contact Set objContact = objCollection.GetFirst() ' Loop through the collection Do While Not objContact Is Nothing objContact.Delete ' Get next message Set objContact = objCollection.GetNext() Loop objSession.Logoff Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 5:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Sorry, I'm trying to get rid of them in preparation for exmerging back in a proper version of the contacts (i.e. only a few thousand with no duplicates!) Richard From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 10:09 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I don't understand your objective. Are you trying to delete all of those contacts? Or just get a copy of them elsewhere? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmerge limit on no. of items I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain privileged, confidential, or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under law. If you have received this message in error, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. Thank you. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items
I've never done that before. Does it actually delete the records? Or are they orphaned until you run a defrag? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Delete the Contacts folder instead, then run outlook /resetfolders. You can delete the Contact or other default folder with a ugly client like MDBVU32. From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 7:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Why not exmerge out everything but the contacts, delete the mailbox, create a new mailbox and exmerge back in. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I think you are running into the maximum size of a delete transaction. I would probably open the mailbox in Outlook and put someone to deleting a few thousand at a time, or develop a script. It should be pretty easy, but you should test test test! ' CDO 1.x folder constants Public Const CdoDefaultFolderCalendar = 0 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderContacts = 5 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderDeletedItems = 4 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderInbox = 1 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderJournal = 6 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderNotes = 7 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderOutbox = 2 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderSentItems = 3 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderTasks = 8 Dim objSession, objFolder ' Create MAPI session Set objSession = CreateObject(MAPI.Session) ' logon using an new MAPI session with a dynamically created profile strProfileInfo = Your Servername vbLf Your Mailbox objSession.Logon , , False, True, 0, False, strProfileInfo ''' or connect to a MAPI session already in progress ''' objSession.Logon , , False, False, 0 ' Get the default contacts folder Set objFolder = objSession.GetDefaultFolder(CdoDefaultFolderContacts) ' get the item collection Set objCollection = objFolder.Messages ' get first contact Set objContact = objCollection.GetFirst() ' Loop through the collection Do While Not objContact Is Nothing objContact.Delete ' Get next message Set objContact = objCollection.GetNext() Loop objSession.Logoff Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 5:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Sorry, I'm trying to get rid of them in preparation for exmerging back in a proper version of the contacts (i.e. only a few thousand with no duplicates!) Richard From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 10:09 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I don't understand your objective. Are you trying to delete all of those contacts? Or just get a copy of them elsewhere? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmerge limit on no. of items I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard _ This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain privileged, confidential, or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under law. If you have received this message in error, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. Thank you. _ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items
Thanks Kevin and Michael for your assistance. This sounds like a good plan, I'll try it on a test mailbox first, then proceed with the live mailbox (after a backup of course!) Richard From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 15:50 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Delete the Contacts folder instead, then run outlook /resetfolders. You can delete the Contact or other default folder with a ugly client like MDBVU32. From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 7:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Why not exmerge out everything but the contacts, delete the mailbox, create a new mailbox and exmerge back in. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I think you are running into the maximum size of a delete transaction. I would probably open the mailbox in Outlook and put someone to deleting a few thousand at a time, or develop a script. It should be pretty easy, but you should test test test! ' CDO 1.x folder constants Public Const CdoDefaultFolderCalendar = 0 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderContacts = 5 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderDeletedItems = 4 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderInbox = 1 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderJournal = 6 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderNotes = 7 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderOutbox = 2 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderSentItems = 3 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderTasks = 8 Dim objSession, objFolder ' Create MAPI session Set objSession = CreateObject(MAPI.Session) ' logon using an new MAPI session with a dynamically created profile strProfileInfo = Your Servername vbLf Your Mailbox objSession.Logon , , False, True, 0, False, strProfileInfo ''' or connect to a MAPI session already in progress ''' objSession.Logon , , False, False, 0 ' Get the default contacts folder Set objFolder = objSession.GetDefaultFolder(CdoDefaultFolderContacts) ' get the item collection Set objCollection = objFolder.Messages ' get first contact Set objContact = objCollection.GetFirst() ' Loop through the collection Do While Not objContact Is Nothing objContact.Delete ' Get next message Set objContact = objCollection.GetNext() Loop objSession.Logoff Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 5:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Sorry, I'm trying to get rid of them in preparation for exmerging back in a proper version of the contacts (i.e. only a few thousand with no duplicates!) Richard From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 10:09 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I don't understand your objective. Are you trying to delete all of those contacts? Or just get a copy of them elsewhere? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmerge limit on no. of items I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain privileged, confidential, or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under law. If you have received this message in error, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. Thank you. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items
Hmmm... I believe (but am not positive) that it results in an orphan... but I thought orphans were cleaned in online maintenance? Certainly may be mistaken there... From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 8:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I've never done that before. Does it actually delete the records? Or are they orphaned until you run a defrag? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Delete the Contacts folder instead, then run outlook /resetfolders. You can delete the Contact or other default folder with a ugly client like MDBVU32. From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 7:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Why not exmerge out everything but the contacts, delete the mailbox, create a new mailbox and exmerge back in. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I think you are running into the maximum size of a delete transaction. I would probably open the mailbox in Outlook and put someone to deleting a few thousand at a time, or develop a script. It should be pretty easy, but you should test test test! ' CDO 1.x folder constants Public Const CdoDefaultFolderCalendar = 0 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderContacts = 5 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderDeletedItems = 4 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderInbox = 1 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderJournal = 6 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderNotes = 7 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderOutbox = 2 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderSentItems = 3 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderTasks = 8 Dim objSession, objFolder ' Create MAPI session Set objSession = CreateObject(MAPI.Session) ' logon using an new MAPI session with a dynamically created profile strProfileInfo = Your Servername vbLf Your Mailbox objSession.Logon , , False, True, 0, False, strProfileInfo ''' or connect to a MAPI session already in progress ''' objSession.Logon , , False, False, 0 ' Get the default contacts folder Set objFolder = objSession.GetDefaultFolder(CdoDefaultFolderContacts) ' get the item collection Set objCollection = objFolder.Messages ' get first contact Set objContact = objCollection.GetFirst() ' Loop through the collection Do While Not objContact Is Nothing objContact.Delete ' Get next message Set objContact = objCollection.GetNext() Loop objSession.Logoff Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 5:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Sorry, I'm trying to get rid of them in preparation for exmerging back in a proper version of the contacts (i.e. only a few thousand with no duplicates!) Richard From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 10:09 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I don't understand your objective. Are you trying to delete all of those contacts? Or just get a copy of them elsewhere? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmerge limit on no. of items I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain privileged, confidential, or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under law. If you have received this message in error, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. Thank you. This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain privileged, confidential, or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under law. If you have received this message in error, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. Thank you. ~ Ninja
RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items
Hmmm. I suppose tombstone maintenance might pick it up, but I really don't know. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 3:33 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Hmmm. I believe (but am not positive) that it results in an orphan. but I thought orphans were cleaned in online maintenance? Certainly may be mistaken there. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 8:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I've never done that before. Does it actually delete the records? Or are they orphaned until you run a defrag? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Delete the Contacts folder instead, then run outlook /resetfolders. You can delete the Contact or other default folder with a ugly client like MDBVU32. From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 7:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Why not exmerge out everything but the contacts, delete the mailbox, create a new mailbox and exmerge back in. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I think you are running into the maximum size of a delete transaction. I would probably open the mailbox in Outlook and put someone to deleting a few thousand at a time, or develop a script. It should be pretty easy, but you should test test test! ' CDO 1.x folder constants Public Const CdoDefaultFolderCalendar = 0 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderContacts = 5 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderDeletedItems = 4 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderInbox = 1 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderJournal = 6 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderNotes = 7 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderOutbox = 2 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderSentItems = 3 Public Const CdoDefaultFolderTasks = 8 Dim objSession, objFolder ' Create MAPI session Set objSession = CreateObject(MAPI.Session) ' logon using an new MAPI session with a dynamically created profile strProfileInfo = Your Servername vbLf Your Mailbox objSession.Logon , , False, True, 0, False, strProfileInfo ''' or connect to a MAPI session already in progress ''' objSession.Logon , , False, False, 0 ' Get the default contacts folder Set objFolder = objSession.GetDefaultFolder(CdoDefaultFolderContacts) ' get the item collection Set objCollection = objFolder.Messages ' get first contact Set objContact = objCollection.GetFirst() ' Loop through the collection Do While Not objContact Is Nothing objContact.Delete ' Get next message Set objContact = objCollection.GetNext() Loop objSession.Logoff Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 5:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items Sorry, I'm trying to get rid of them in preparation for exmerging back in a proper version of the contacts (i.e. only a few thousand with no duplicates!) Richard From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2008 10:09 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exmerge limit on no. of items I don't understand your objective. Are you trying to delete all of those contacts? Or just get a copy of them elsewhere? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmerge limit on no. of items I have a user who, after using Entourage, has ended up with nearly 1 million contacts. I'm trying to use exmerge to get them all out, but each four hour pass of the Contacts folder only removes ~10,000 items. Not very practical, it would take me weeks! Does anyone know a better solution that doesn't involve recreating the mailbox? Cheers Richard _ This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain privileged, confidential, or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under law. If you have received this message in error, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. Thank you. _ _ This e-mail
