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Mailbox migration fails at “/Reminders”

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Issue: The Exchange move mailbox process fails at “/Reminders” on one or more users mailboxes Solution: cleanup and remove corrupt Outlook data preventing mailbox from Migrating 1) Connect to the problem mailbox using the MFCMAPI tool 2) 'Hard Delete' the TO-DO Search Folder, close MFCMAPI 3) Run "Outlook /cleanfinders", close Outlook (see using Outlook's clean /switches for the complete commands) 4) Run "Outlook /cleanreminders", close Outlook 5) Run "Outlook /cleanfreebusy", close Read more [...]

To-Do Bar broken after mailbox force migrated (-badlimit specified) to Exchange 2010

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Issue: Outlook's To-Do Bar is no longer working after a mailbox is forced migrated (-badlimit specified) to Exchange 2010.  Further, the To-Do list may display in cached mode, but will not show up with cached mode disabled. Solution: 1) Migrate mailbox BACK to Exchange 2003 2) Use MFCMAPI and hard delete (permanent/unrecoverable) "To Do Search" folder in the mailbox's Root Container 3) Run "Outlook /ResetTodoBar" (see using Outlooks clean /switches for complete command) 4) Verify TODO Read more [...]

How to use Outlook /switches to clean and repair corrupt data

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Outlook offers several command line switches that can help immensely when: Outlook email data is not displaying properly A Mailbox migration fails email data not displaying properly or missing after a completed mailbox migration How to clean the reminders, finders, views, free/busy and reset the TodoBar using Outlook: Note: Example uses Outlook 2003, replace the "11" in "Office11" with your version number "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Outlook.exe" /Cleanreminders "C:\Program Read more [...]

can’t receive email after mailbox migration “MapiExceptionMaxObjsExceeded”

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Issues: One user can't receive email after being migrated to Exchange 2013 and senders receive bounce messages that contain "STOREDRV.Deliver.Exception:StoragePermanentException.MapiExceptionMaxObjsExceeded; Failed to process message due to a permanent exception with message Cannot set search criteria in SearchFolder."  Note: the entire bounce message can be found at end of this article). Symtom's: Application log error "StoragePermanentException: Cannot set search criteria in Search Folder...": You Read more [...]

Move Mailbox error: IExchangeFastTransferEx.TransferBuffer failed (hr=0x80004005, ec=-2147467259)

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Issue: Moving mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Fails: MapiExceptionCallFailed: IExchangeFastTransferEx.TransferBuffer failed (hr=0x80004005, ec=-2147467259) Attempted Resolutions Skip the corrupted messages: Set maximum messages to skip to 5 Message/Size Limits: Removing any mailbox size or message limits from the mailbox and target database.  For good measure, try removing size/message limits from source database as well. Clean the reminders, finders, views, freebusy and reset Read more [...]