Hello,
I have took receipt of a number of PST files which have been imported into new mailboxes created in Exchange 2010 - the export process ran by another IT company I believe has simply been from an Outlook client. I've used the shell and the command I have used for each PST import looks similar to this:
New-MailboxImportRequest -FilePath "\\Path\To\File\person@domain.com.pst" -Mailbox MailboxtoImportTo -BadItemLimit 5000 -AcceptLargeDataLoss -Name NameofImportJob
These are relatively large PSTs, some are 10GB and have been devided into 3 seperate PSTs all sized at 10GB for some users.
There were a high number of "Bad Items Encountered" during the import, some as high as 6000. So I had to accept large data loss. However, one particular PST which only encountered 4 bad items during import had a large disparity between what Exchange imported and what I could see when I loaded the same PST into a local installation of Outlook. For example, the mailbox imported to by Exchange shell had some empty subfolders - the PST loaded into Outlook had a lot of additional mail items in these subfolders.
Am I missing something? Is the Import CMDlet behaving differently from a simple PST load in Outlook for a reason?
Many thanks in advance if anyone has any ideas on this.
Cheers,
Sam