I was going through the laborious task of manually importing PST files into Exchange 2010 SP1 beta and I hit a bug:
Error:
Error was found for (username) because: Error occurred in the step: Approving object. An unknown error
has occurred., error code: -2147221219
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (0:Int32) [Import-Mailbox], RecipientTaskException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CFFD629B,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.ImportMailbox
Here is how I worked round it.
After doing some digging, I found the site http://www.korneel.nl/?p=28 that identifies most of the problems you might hit importing a PST file.
The cause for the error in my case transpired to be an acknowledged (according to the blog post) bug in exchange, presumably with an upcoming hotfix. However, it seems to be a generic error for all ills, as other solutions on the web suggest using the ‘fixmapi’ command (though admittedly referring to exchange 2007…). http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrmigration/thread/82424f36-2611-4188-808e-df9aad36a5b7 (And the most common suggestion being adding the import export role to the user account.)
Another potential pitfall is the requirement for the 64bit version of outlook 2010 to be installed. It’s worth noting that by default an installation of Office 2010 on a clean machine will install the 32bit version.
As an unrelated aside, installing the SP1 beta on exchange also caused a few problems – it required the manual installation of several hot fixes – and more annoyingly one package (UCMA 2.0 Runtime 64bit)– which despite coming as an ‘msi’ installation package, and on running giving all the signs it had installed successfully – had actually only ‘installed’ the installation files, which then had to be run separately. I’m sure these niggles will be ironed out before SP1 is released, but it wasn’t the friendliest of upgrades.
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