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The Exchange Server Toolbox Service User needs to be a member of the following Active Directory groups:
Domain Admins
Domain Users
In order to exclude specific file types from the "Delete Attachments" action you can add the following Regex expression to the action:
(?!.*\.(pdf|rtf)$).*\..*$
With this expression only PDF and RTF files would not be deleted.
You can switch the "pdf" and the "rtf" with any file type you want to exclude.
To add more types (for example docx) simply add a |docx.
To only exclude a single extension you can remove everything from the brackets but one file type.
Please note that you can install the Exchange Server Toolbox with the same license only on one machine at a time.
If you want to perform a step-by-step migration to the new server, processing mailboxes from the new server one by one, you can install the Exchange Server Toolbox demo on the new server for the duration of the migration.
To apply the configuration, export it under the Advanced Options of the Exchange Server Toolbox and import it on the same page on the new server.
The steps required to migrate the archive as efficiently and smoothly as possible differ depending on the type of archiving and the database used:
Database Archiving
MS SQL & MySQL
If the database is located on another server, you can continue to use it on the new server in parallel.
If the database is also located on the old server, proceed as follows:
Integrated file-based database (Firebird)
If parallel operation is desired for a period of time proceed as follows:
If parallel operation is not desired proceed as follows:
File system archiving
With file system archiving, only the paths to the archived e-mails are stored in the database instead of the complete e-mail. To avoid a time-consuming import, it is also advisable to migrate the index database in this case.MS SQL & MySQL
MS SQL & MySQL
If the index database is located on another server, you can continue to use it on the new server in parallel.
If the database is also on the old server, proceed as follows:
Integrated file-based database (Firebird)
If parallel operation is desired for a period of time proceed as follows:
If parallel operation is not desired proceed as follows:
This option is only available if you have a local Microsoft Outlook installation. If Outlook is missing on the system this option is disabled.
The SCL value of an email can only be set if you are using an Exchange Server and even then only if there is no other email server between the Exchange Server and the Exchange Server Toolbox setting the value.
If an Exchange Server recieves an email with Exchange Server specific header content it will automatically ignore and overwrite these values.