"Karl Mitschke" wrote:

> Hello Zamsheer,
>
> > I have a coding requirement to automate the mailbox movement across
> > servers. There are scripts available to move the mailboxes but there
> > is no option to select the source. It just moves the mailboxes from
> > the logged in server to  some destination provided. I looking for some
> > APIs or some methods where I will have option to select the source
> > server and destination server and then move the mailboxes sitting in
> > any server in the domain. Could you please help me in this regard?
> >
>
> What version of Exchange?
>
>
>

"Zamsheer" <Zamsh***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Karl,
>                   version of Exchange: Exchange 2003 SP2.
> Regards,
> Zamsheer
>
> "Karl Mitschke" wrote:
>
>> Hello Zamsheer,
>>
>> > I have a coding requirement to automate the mailbox movement across
>> > servers. There are scripts available to move the mailboxes but there
>> > is no option to select the source. It just moves the mailboxes from
>> > the logged in server to  some destination provided. I looking for some
>> > APIs or some methods where I will have option to select the source
>> > server and destination server and then move the mailboxes sitting in
>> > any server in the domain. Could you please help me in this regard?
>> >
>>
>> What version of Exchange?
>>
>>
>>

"Ed Crowley [MVP]" wrote:

> You use some kind of LDAP query to select the owning users of the mailboxes
> you want to move, and based on the query you get the user objects themselves
> and issue the MoveMailbox method on them.  This kind of technique was rather
> useful in older versions of exchange, however, with your version of Exchange
> I find that it's a whole lot easier to just use the Move Mailbox Wizard
> becasue it's multithreaded (something that's hard to script), it provides
> much better status information, and it has a pretty good GUI.  I find it
> easier to write a script that sets some attribute to a value and use that
> value to select the mailboxes from within the Move Mailbox Wizard.
> --
> Ed Crowley MVP
> "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
> ..
>
> "Zamsheer" <Zamsh***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6EEB75AE-8F09-4D97-B2DD-43B609165A6A@microsoft.com...
> > Hello Karl,
> >                   version of Exchange: Exchange 2003 SP2.
> > Regards,
> > Zamsheer
> >
> > "Karl Mitschke" wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Zamsheer,
> >>
> >> > I have a coding requirement to automate the mailbox movement across
> >> > servers. There are scripts available to move the mailboxes but there
> >> > is no option to select the source. It just moves the mailboxes from
> >> > the logged in server to  some destination provided. I looking for some
> >> > APIs or some methods where I will have option to select the source
> >> > server and destination server and then move the mailboxes sitting in
> >> > any server in the domain. Could you please help me in this regard?
> >> >
> >>
> >> What version of Exchange?
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>

"Zamsheer" <Zamsh***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9D5333B7-21C0-4B43-AB23-1A49466B68AC@microsoft.com...
> The current script uses below method(Not complete code..A part of it...).
> =============================================
> Set objPerson = CreateObject ("CDO.Person")
> Set objMailbox = objPerson.GetInterface ("IMailboxStore")
> 'Msgbox UserDN
> Set objSourceHomeMDB = CreateObject("CDOEXM.MailBoxStoreDB")
>        objSourceHomeMDB.DataSource.Open (TargetMdbDN)
> objPerson.DataSource.Open "LDAP://" & UserDN
> objMailbox.MoveMailbox "LDAP://" & TargetMdbDN
> =============================================
>
> I looking for some APIs or some methods where I
> will have option to select the source server and destination server and
> then
> move the mailboxes sitting in any server in the domain. Will it be
> possible
> to create an application in .NET? Or is there any API available for this?
>
> "Ed Crowley [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> You use some kind of LDAP query to select the owning users of the
>> mailboxes
>> you want to move, and based on the query you get the user objects
>> themselves
>> and issue the MoveMailbox method on them.  This kind of technique was
>> rather
>> useful in older versions of exchange, however, with your version of
>> Exchange
>> I find that it's a whole lot easier to just use the Move Mailbox Wizard
>> becasue it's multithreaded (something that's hard to script), it provides
>> much better status information, and it has a pretty good GUI.  I find it
>> easier to write a script that sets some attribute to a value and use that
>> value to select the mailboxes from within the Move Mailbox Wizard.
>> --
>> Ed Crowley MVP
>> "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
>> ..
>>
>> "Zamsheer" <Zamsh***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6EEB75AE-8F09-4D97-B2DD-43B609165A6A@microsoft.com...
>> > Hello Karl,
>> >                   version of Exchange: Exchange 2003 SP2.
>> > Regards,
>> > Zamsheer
>> >
>> > "Karl Mitschke" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello Zamsheer,
>> >>
>> >> > I have a coding requirement to automate the mailbox movement across
>> >> > servers. There are scripts available to move the mailboxes but there
>> >> > is no option to select the source. It just moves the mailboxes from
>> >> > the logged in server to  some destination provided. I looking for
>> >> > some
>> >> > APIs or some methods where I will have option to select the source
>> >> > server and destination server and then move the mailboxes sitting in
>> >> > any server in the domain. Could you please help me in this regard?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> What version of Exchange?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>