Hey guys
So, recently my company decided to migrate from a POP3 e-mail system where each user has his/her account configured locally to an exchange server 2010 e-mail system. Many users within the company have mailboxes as large as 20gb. We have asked the users to clean their mailboxes, but you know how difficult it is to make everyone comply to this. Anyways, so I began testing with some backed up .pst files for some 10gb mailboxes to see if i could prepare myself for the migration. Turns out many mailboxes had the corrupt items inside it and would not import, failing at 10/12 percent. I tried setting BadLimit to values like 40 and -AllowBigDataLoss and the process restarted, it was taking quite some time so I went home and this morning I saw that not only the process had not finished but also it created database items (like 100k more) that consumed the entire disk space. I actually had to delete the database files so i could do something inside the server. The problem is that now the process of importing the mailbox is in a loop and i can't exclude it cause it gives me an error(resource unavailable), probably because i deleted all the database items. It is strange because the mailbox is 10gb large and the hard drive is like 200gb large. But that´s not the problem, the problem is that i need to figure out how to import those .pst mailboxes without crashing the server. If i had this problem with one mailbox, i wonder what would happen if i imported all the 113 mailboxes of the company. Can anyone point me to a solution, because probably most of the mailboxes will have bad items!
Thanks