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shocko's avatar
shocko
Level 4
4 years ago

Hydrating a mailbox with Vault Items - Noisey Items

We are moving some of our mailboxes from Exchange 2016 [Ex2016] to Exchange Online [EOL] in Office 365. In Ex2016 we use Enterprise Vault 12 [EV12] to archive mail. Before we migrate the users mailbo...
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  • GertjanA's avatar
    GertjanA
    4 years ago

    Hello Shocko,

    As both Marc and Prone2types want to say is that this is how the 'export archive to mailbox' works.

    Depending on the amount of archives you need to restore, it might be wise to look at 3rd party tools. I have done 40.000 archives, using Transvault. That allows to migrate an archive to a subfolder in the mailbox, which makes it easier for a user to 'understand' what is from the archive, and what is 'newer'.

    I migrated archives to a subfolder called "old archives". I also defined to restore calendar entries to 'old calendar', instead of the actual calendar. Now, Transvault is licensed per amount of TB you need to restore (see Usage.asp for a high level estimate on TB's you need to migrate). 

    As you perhaps have read, Veritas acquired Globanet. Veritas now has a tool called Migrate. That could also assist.

    Using EV to do it when you have a 'small' amount of archives, you will have to face some user-discussions to explain that the issues you report happen..

    Good luck in your journey :-)

     

Prone2Typos's avatar
Prone2Typos
Moderator
4 years ago

This and many other licenses are things that migration solutions like Archive Shuttle address. I can tell you that there are properties on messages that you could write an EWS script to update. This may work if you were doing this overnight and the user closed their Outlook.

This is one of the many challeges of doing a migration to o365 when you have been using Enterprise Vault.

 

  • shocko's avatar
    shocko
    Level 4
    4 years ago

    Thanks for the reply but that seems like a sales pitch rather than an answer ? :cathappy:

    • Marcde's avatar
      Marcde
      Moderator
      4 years ago

      I think what Prone2Typos wanted to say with this is, that there are specific tools out there that can handle what you are trying to achieve and that EV is not capable of doing this. At least I do also not know a way to avoid your topics with just using EV.

       

      Regards

      Marc

       

      • GertjanA's avatar
        GertjanA
        Moderator
        4 years ago

        Hello Shocko,

        As both Marc and Prone2types want to say is that this is how the 'export archive to mailbox' works.

        Depending on the amount of archives you need to restore, it might be wise to look at 3rd party tools. I have done 40.000 archives, using Transvault. That allows to migrate an archive to a subfolder in the mailbox, which makes it easier for a user to 'understand' what is from the archive, and what is 'newer'.

        I migrated archives to a subfolder called "old archives". I also defined to restore calendar entries to 'old calendar', instead of the actual calendar. Now, Transvault is licensed per amount of TB you need to restore (see Usage.asp for a high level estimate on TB's you need to migrate). 

        As you perhaps have read, Veritas acquired Globanet. Veritas now has a tool called Migrate. That could also assist.

        Using EV to do it when you have a 'small' amount of archives, you will have to face some user-discussions to explain that the issues you report happen..

        Good luck in your journey :-)