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Exporting a Mailbox larger then 2 GB and spanning it across multiple PST files with a script

*update* I suggest checking out Michael Smith's RDO port of this script which is a much more developed examples http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2009/10/16/exporting-mailboxes-larger-than-2-gb-on-an-exchange-server.aspx . *update* I have a small customer with an old server that recently had a staff member leave who had a very large mailbox over 5 GB. Now these guys are pretty tight still using Exchange 2000 and Office 2000 and don’t want to upgrade software or hardware so getting rid of this mailbox out the Exchange store while still giving people occasionally access to this mailbox was desirable and also challenging. Because all the clients are using Outlook 2000 I’m stuck with the 2 GB PST non-Unicode file limit which Exmerge is similarly afflicted with. Using Exmerge with date filters was one possible solution but I decided I’d rather just do a liner export where mail was exported one item at a time and would just span to the next PST when the space was ex...
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