i m trying to move mailboxs from exchange server 2003 to exchange server 2007.most of the mailboxes give below error ..can any budy help me out please Error was found for "user" because: Error occurred in the step: Moving messages. Unable to unlock mailbox with error: MAPI or an unspecified service provider. ID no: 00000000-0000-00000000, error code: -1056749254.. i have also tried through exmerge it also give error.below logs 0 mailboxes successfully processed. 1 mailboxes were not successfully processed. 0 non-fatal errors encountered

Try moving the mailbox to a different Exchange 2003 mailbox store using Exchange System Manager and then try the Move-Mailbox again.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

How are you trying to move the mailboxes? I mean, are you using the 2003 server or 2007 server to move mailboxes?

i m using 2007 server to move mailbox ...there is one thing also some mailbox move 20 % messages and stuck for a long time i should be ended forcefully

Can you run the command test-mapiconnectivity on your 2003 server from Exchange Management Shell and copy-paste the results here?

in 2003 i have no exchange management shell

in 2007 i run the command and result is below MailboxServer Database Result Latency(MS) Error ------------- -------- ------ ----------- ----- EXCHBE2K7 Mailbox Database Success 6

I have also tried to move one mailbox to another storage group and them move to exchange 2007 but same error occur....your valuable response is highly appreciated..

Go through this KB article, this should be helpful. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/843279 Also, go through this thread. This user had a similar issue. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrmigration/thread/a143664a-71b1-4c64-9928-71ec3ea809c9

Is the user in question a part of any protected groups? Like Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, Account Operators, Administrators, etc in AD? Have you been able to move any mailboxes successfully? If not then have you tested communication between the two exchange servers? If you setup a test account on the 07 server can it send email to a user on the 03 server and vice versa?Chris Morgan

The user which i try to move is not part of DA,EA,AO..I have tried different user ..the user which i use to trying move other mailboxes is the part of above group. Yes i am able to move 2 or 3 mailboxes ..those which have few mails in inbox or also tried to create one new mailbox in exch 03 and after sucessfully move to exch 07 users in both servers can send and receive emails sucessfully.. In past i had sucessfully MOVE maillbox easily without any error from one exch03 server to different exch03 server but problem occur in moving to exch07..any idea. and some users mailboxes in which have few emails trying to move stuck in 20% for a long time it should be stop forcefully no error has for this situation ..how to identify this

Can you look at the application event logs on the 03 and 07 server to see what is being generated during the mailbox move that fails and post the output?Chris Morgan

two Event application error occur on exch07 with 1 warning Warning User Syed Shafquat Ali (/o=LNH Organization/ou=First Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=syed.shafquat) failed to log on because their mailbox is in the process of being moved. =================== Event id 1022 Error Logon Failure on database "First Storage Group\Mailbox Database" - Windows account NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM; mailbox /o=LNH Organization/ou=First Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=syed.shafquat. Error: 1144 Client Machine: EXCHBE2K7 Client Process: MSExchangeMailboxAssistants.exe Client ProcessId: 0 Client ApplicationId: Client=MSExchangeMailboxAssistants;Action=EventDispatcher ================================= Logon Failure on database "First Storage Group\Mailbox Database" - Windows account NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM; mailbox /o=LNH Organization/ou=First Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=syed.shafquat. Error: 1292 Client Machine: EXCHBE2K7 Client Process: MSExchangeMailboxAssistants.exe Client ProcessId: 0 Client ApplicationId: Client=MSExchangeMailboxAssistants;Action=EventDispatcher

Does the account in question have the "allow inheritable permissions from parent to propagate to this object" checked on it? if not check it and then try moving the mailbox.Chris Morgan

Also make sure that your exchange 2007 server is a member of Exchange Domain Servers (EDS)...

Thanks for your all reply..Chris can you please define where i should i define this user to "allow inheritable permissions from parent to propagate to this object"..also i m facing this on many users.. secondly i have define exchange 07 to EDS member..waiting for your prompt response.. or some time i face below error.. Event id 1008 "The move-mailbox task for mailbox 'ABC - (engineer)' failed. Error: Failed to copy messages to the destination mailbox store with error: MAPI or an unspecified service provider. ID no: 00000000-0000-00000000 " please help

You need to enable Advanced View in Active Directory Users and Computers first. This can be done by clicking "View" in the menu and selecting "Advanced Features". Drill down to a problematic user. Go to the Security Tab. Go to Advanced, and there is an "Include inhertible permissions from this objects parent" check box. Check it if it's unchecked then try to move the users as a test. if that works then you may want to script changing it all the users or use something like admodify.net to do it. (can't remember if that tool will do it but it will test it out on one account to see before proceeding with all of them. Here is the download link: http://admodify.codeplex.com/ Chris Morgan

Security is enable "Include inhertible permissions from this objects"..today 2 or 3 users i can move but others are creating problem ..some time its give above error or some time its stuck at 20%..cant understand what is wrong with this

Run perfmon and see if there are any disk latency issues on either server or if there is memory/CPU bottlenecks.Chris Morgan

when i try to move the mailbox "pages/sec" and avg disk queue lenth shoot to 100% the fall back .. i think it is not create bottle neck.. how can i send you screen shots..?any idea please

Any idea please...?

How about this... Remove the Exchange Attribute from problematic mailbox and connect it back again. If the above step doesn't work than try the below one. Move the mailbox from one database to another database on Exchange 2003 server only. Post the result. This issue shouldn't be a big problem. I am wondering if you have tried to create new Database on 2007 server and than move the mailboxes into it?Gulab | Skype: gulab.mallah

Thanks Gulab.. 2nd option i had already applied but it doesnot work for me. I have applied 1st solution its work move mailbox is move but problem is after move user mailbox there is two email box created one in old exchange which alredy exist and second in new exchnage means old email couldnot be retrieved on 2007 exchange mailbox..? what does it mean...?

Sounds like the mailbox has corrupted items in it. Is the one left on the old server have only a few items in it?Chris Morgan

excuse i have did little bit wrong ..actually i remove the exchange features and create new email account and move the new to the exch 2007 thats why its show 2 emailbox..now i have done the right one which i remove the exchange features and reconnect from ESM and after reconnect tried to move mailbox unfortunately still in the stage same error..its occur on every mailbox ,not ever mailbox is corrupted..i have 500 users mailbox..it seems that when i creatwenew user and try to move its sucessfully...your valuable comments is waited "Move-Mailbox : Error was found for ABC (ABC@ABC.pk) because: Error occurred in the step: Moving messages. Unable to unlock mailbox with error: MAPI or an unspecified service provider. ID no: 00000000-0000-00000000, error code: -1056749254 At line:1 char:13 + Move-Mailbox <<<< ABC -TargetDatabase "exchbe2k7\First Storage Grou p\Mailbox Database" -Confirm:$false + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (0:Int32) [Move-Mailbox], Reci pientTaskException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : BABF94F7,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Recipient Tasks.MoveMailbox"

Hmm.. Sorry i am little confuse by your answer for my post. Did you move the mailbox one the same server into another database? Try this, create new database on 2003 server and than move the mailbox into the new database, after the move complete, now move that same mailbox on 2007 server.Gulab | Skype: gulab.mallah

i have already tried this make the new database on exch 2003 server move some mailbox on new database ..after compleletly move them move mailbox to exch 2007 server but result was the same....i dont understand why the newly created mailbox easily move to exch 2007 and old one created problem ...any ideas and solution please..

Any idea please..?

Have you ran Exbpa? Please run and check what do we have in there. It might lots of things which is causing this problem.Gulab | Skype: gulab.mallah

Thanks Mallah your reply.. I have run the EXPBA..can you please tell how and where i can send you expba report..

Dear all I have run expba , in which i dentified some critical issues and warning want to share all of you can any one help ..below is the warning message and critical issues Warning Policy change reuired "The Active Directory forest is prepared for Windows Server 2003. To avoid mailbox re-homing issues when the forest is upgraded to Windows Server 2003 full functionality level, a modification to the system policies is required." Critical issues in EXBPA Report Exchange 2007 Database backup critical Exchange 2003 backend 3GB is not set HeapDeCommitFreeBlockThreshold’ not set Missing FQDN in service principal name Exchange 2007 front end ‘Systempages’ set too high Dtabase backup critical Missing FQDN in service principal name your valuable comment is awiated. or want to share expba report ..but dont know how..

any idea please...?

Hi, I Have found something for you :) but i am not sure how it's going to sound to you!!!!! Run the ISINTEG on the database (2003 server) it will fix the logical corruption. Keep it running until you see Error 0, Warning 0Gulab | Skype: gulab.mallah

Thanks Mallah for your reply.. I have run ISINTEG tool and found 3 error and some warning.. i hve fix these error and warning after that i tried to move mailbox still unfortunately error is same ... Please tell me one thing ..i have my assigned my user full rights when i see user mailboxrights.. i found my user to assign full mailbox rights + also check in deny full mailbox access ..want to know is this the main cause of this issue..plz advice

Uncheck that deny full mailbox access, it shouldn't be Denied. Try moving the mailbox again and post the result.Gulab | Skype: gulab.mallah

uncheck the deny full mailbox access..but result is same move some emails and stuck at 20%.. i want to show you screen shots but how? can i send you @ your email address..please

m_gulab@hotmail.com how many mailboxes do you have which is yet to be moved?Gulab | Skype: gulab.mallah

Almost all which is approx 450 users...i have sent you email..please check

Do you have the proper credentials to move these mailboxes?

Yes i have .. i have DOAMIN ADMIN ENTERPRISE ADMIN EXCHANGE DOMAIN SERVER EXCHANGE ORGANIZATION ADMINISTRATOR, EXCHANGE RECEPIENT ADMINISTRATOR, EXCHANGE SERVER EXCHANGE VIEW ONLY ADMINISTRATOR SCHEMA ADMINISTRATOR, both local admistrator group. also full mailbox access assign by myself to user mailboxes..

has the mailbox exceeded its limit? Mailbox move will fail if the mailbox has exceeded its limit? Try increasing the mailbox quota and try again.