Help with a Sunday hosted exchange migration please!

[thecomputerguy]

Outlook 2013

So I'm converting this email account from IMAP to hosted exchange, I made sure to do a full sync on the imap side to make sure everything was downloaded. Everything was going smooth.

After setting up the new outlook profile I setup her new blank exchange account then imported to imap data file that I exported to a PST.

Everything looked like it was importing properly, then once done, I freaked out... all the folders were empty.

After doing some troubleshooting I found that for some reason a filter is applied to EVERY. SINGLE. FOLDER. and we are talking like 100 folders that I may have to manually fix if I can't find a solution to clear the filter in mass.




(Outlook 2013) Once I click View > View Settings > Filter > Advanced

This is what I see, if I hit remove or clear all, everything shows up fine.

The weird thing is everything shows and syncs fine in OWA

 

[Markverhyden]

You did it the wrong way. Especially if the store is very large. If you had looked around on here you would have seen multiple references to migrating to hosted exchange using bittitan migrationwiz.

 

[thecomputerguy]

Well I found out why this was happening and it had to do with one of the view settings, I was able to get all the emails to appear fine, everything is uploading to the exchange server and syncing properly.

It's not a super large data store only about 2.5gigs and it's only 1 email account.

I'll look into migration wiz, I probably didn't do it the most efficient way but I don't see why this way wouldn't work, all emails and attachments seem to be adding up just fine...

I've done small IMAP migrations like this before without any issue, is there something that could go drastically wrong here?

 

[Markverhyden]

I've done it the old way but the migwiz tools is awesome. True, depending on the situation, I would do a simple one off the old fashioned way. But if one is dealing with multiple accounts, especially with large stores there is no better way than using migwiz. But it's not 100%. Some situations may not workout. But you do not know until you try. The good thing is you can test the migwiz without being billed.

 

[nesrinamb]

Oh man I hate it when you think everything is gone, but love it when you realize it's like one small thing and bam everything is good again.

Definitely check out migration wiz, your way works just fine but if your doing 10 email accounts migrationwiz is much faster.

 

[Mokester]

Well you could use the outlook cmd switch to clear views...that should clear out any stuck filters.

Think it's "outlook.exe /cleanviews" or something like that. But it does reset all view settings to default.

 

[mikemcg]

For IMAP to Hosted Exchange migrations I have used stunnel [for secure connections to servers that require it] and IMAP copy. It will do batch jobs [I did 20 accounts last time] and you can whitelist and/or blacklist folders.