Introduction

This Video tutorial discusses how to configure an account to use the Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Merge (ExMerge) utility in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server and in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

Account Permissions

The account which is used to run ExMerge utility must have "Send As" and "Receive As" permissions on the corresponding Mailbox store.The built-in administrator accounts as well as the built-in administrative groups inherit the Deny permission for both the "Send As" and "Receive As" permission. As a result Deny overrides the Allow permission which you can set manually through ESM. A clean and functional approach is to create an account for ExMerge with the necessary following permissions.

• In Exchange 2000, built-in administrator accounts and built-in administrative groups inherit the Deny permission for both the Send As and the Receive As permissions.
• In Exchange 2003, built-in administrator accounts and built-in administrative groups inherit the Allow permission together with the Deny permission for the Send As permission and for the Receive As permission.

Step1:Create an account for ExMerge and grant local admin rights to it

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Step2: Delegate "Exchange View Only Admin" rights and grant "Send As" and "Receive As" permissions.

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Step3: Run ExMerge using the configured account

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Special Note:

To use the ExMerge utility without being restricted by these inherited permissions, we recommend that you create a new security group, add members to the group, and then grant permissions to the security group on the Exchange mailbox store. In Exchange 2003, you must use a security group to override inherited Send As permissions and Receive As permissions. In Exchange 2000, you can apply explicit permissions to an individual account to override inherited Send As and Receive As permissions. However, we recommend that you use a security group to apply permissions in both versions of Exchange.

Example Scenario where Exmerge is used:

Someone installed a new Exchange 2003 into the network. Previously they had webmail accounts that they configured with the Outlooks to pop3 and download all emails to their local machine.  Now when you search on the internet to find out how you can import all of the old emails by exporting to a .pst file, most of the time the search result will Exmerge! Yes, using Exmerge You can import psts into a mailbox store other than moving mailboxes from one Exchange server to another. The exmerge doc will tell you more.

There are many scenarious you can use the exmerge utility, above mentioned is just one.

Related Links

Download the ExMerge utility

How to configure an account to use the ExMerge utility