Outlook PST problems.. (Exmerge)

[Jason (NFSB)]

Hello all..
I have a laptop user who has a outlook 2003 PST that needs to get migrated
back into our exchange server.. The problem is this user is on a 2003 PST
because of the space restraint on the 2000/2002 which I believe was 2gb.. Yes
she maxed it this out.. So the 2003 file will allow up to 5gb of space, I am
very sure she is still over the 2gb mark.. From the reading I've done,
Exmerge will only import 2000/2002 PST files.. So everyone’s suggestion is to
create a new(old) 2000/2002 PST file and move the data from the 2003 file to
the older file and then do the exmerge.. Sounds fine and dandy but what
about the fact that my user has more info than the 2000/2008 file can
handle?? Is this going to be a problem?? Or does anyone know a work around
for importing data from a 2003 PST file.. And of course this is to all happen
tomorrow morning..

Thanks for any information..

Jason

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a laptop user who has a outlook 2003 PST that needs to get
migrated back into our exchange server.. The problem is this user is
on a 2003 PST because of the space restraint on the 2000/2002 which I
believe was 2gb..

If you're using Exchange, just create an Exchange account in Outlook 2003
and copy the data from the PST to the Exchange mailbox. There shouldn't be
any 2 GB limitation to consider. The only limitation you'll have is the
mailbox quota. There should be no other PSTs involved.

Yes she maxed it this out.. So the 2003 file will
allow up to 5gb of space, I am very sure she is still over the 2gb
mark.. From the reading I've done, Exmerge will only import 2000/2002
PST files.. So everyone’s suggestion is to create a new(old)
2000/2002 PST file and move the data from the 2003 file to the older
file and then do the exmerge.. Sounds fine and dandy but what about
the fact that my user has more info than the 2000/2008 file can
handle?? Is this going to be a problem?? Or does anyone know a work
around for importing data from a 2003 PST file.. And of course this
is to all happen tomorrow morning..

So have her create several of Outlook 2002-format PSTs in Outlook 2003 and
copy some of the data in the original PST to each so that none exceed the
2GB limit. Then import each.