Q: If your event log fills, does that mean the mailboxes did not rebase? A: yes

Q: If the resource mailboxes are hidden from the GAL, will that cause an issue when rebasing from a txt file? A: no, the rebasing tool doesn't look at the GAL

Q: is there an easy way or tool or script to determine the calendars that are setup for autoaccept? A: Hi, there is a VB script that will list the registered mailboxes. You will find more about this in the AutoAccept documentation http://www.microsoft...

Q: Hi all, my customer rebased their direct booked resource mailboxes without the /suppressall switch by accident. They then ran against the resource mailboxes correctly, but after the user mailboxes were rebased. Will this cause problems? A: they may...

Q: if we get the time zone incorrect when running the Exchange rebase tool - will it be corrected when the user logs into their individual workstation and Outlook loads? A: recurring meetings will be ok, but the single instance meetings will be moved...

Q: We are also experiencing out of memory errors with the virtual machines. We are running four simultaneously on a 8 core box, with 8GB of ram, with each virtual set to use 1GB of ram. A: limit the number of mailboxes you are updating at one time and...

Q: Compared to version 1 - the V2 of the Exchange Update Tool does not ask for the path to Outlook, nor does it launch outlook - is this normal? A: Yes this is normal

Q: The Exchange tool is not using the correct profile. It is creating and using the msextmz-user-hexvalue instead of the default profile. The key exists for the check profile. The profile is set to use an account that has all of the required permissions...

Q: What document will detail the command line options with an input file to rebase conference rooms with the /forcesuppress options? A: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933146

Q: When running the rebase / tzmove will it touch the public folders for shared calendars? Do you run a separate process or command for this? A: A separate process – see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933146

Q: How do you use TZMOVE.exe and script the process of rebasing the public folder calendars? A: Check out this blog video: http://msexchangeteam.com/videos/9/tools/entry435540.aspx . Also you can find this information in this knowledge base article 933146...

Q: what happens if I run the exchange rebasing tool twice on a group of users? A: When you run the tool, it will stamp all the appointments that were rebased with the required information so that a second run doesn't affect them. One thing to remember...

Q: 0x80040115 what does this error mean after attempting to update the batch file with the /forcerebasesuppress all errrors file is full of users that I ran it against A: The most common cause for this error is invalid LegacyExchangeDNs... and the /forcerebasesuppressallupdates...

Q: When you rebase does the process resend emails out for appointments to the users? A: Yes it sends updates to the meetings on the behalf of the organizer.

Q: Can I use the tzmove.exe -quiet command against public folders with non-English characters? A: Non-English characters are not supported in command line options for the tool. The owner of the PF will need to run the rebasing manually

Q: We have updated over 300 public folders, except for about 30 where they have the ‘&’ (ampersand) symbol in the public folder name. It seems the exchange tool does not like that being in the path. A: The tool does have some problems with special...

Q: I was under the impression that if you added the people from nonexixtent and errors into mailboxes_1 that would assign them time zones. I got 0x8004011d for some of them in the tmz.log Do I have to edit output.txt to assign tzone info as well? A: Some...

Q: I have 1100 mailboxes, when I run the extract etc. I have a total of 774 and this includes nonexistent, conflict, and mailboxes....what does that tell me? A: if you have already ran the tool and you are getting the 774 number, try running the tool...

Q: If we rebase a user and put them in Eastern Standard but it turns out the are in Pacific Time can we just rebase using the correct time zone? A: Yes. The rebasing tools such as the Outlook Calendar Update Tool is meant for just that - e.g. if users...

Q: How do I make one person owner of all of the public folders? PFDavadmin doesn’t let you do that from the root. Thanks. A: Add ownership to each folder directly under the root, then propagate to all sub folders using PFDAVadmin.

Q: I ran the MsExTmz.exe within virtual machine and got both an output.txt and errors.txt files. What should I do with the errors.txt file? A: you can run rebasing against these users, put a correct time zone and time zone format for each of these users...

Q: I’ve heard that only Exchange puts a time stamp on the meeting, while the outlook update tool does not, has this been the case? A: Essentially, even if you are running the tool in bulk using our Exchange tool, all appointments updated by the Outlook...

Q: I would like to run the FORCEREBASESUPPRESSALLUPDATES switch for a bulk set of mailboxes. I'm having trouble finding syntax to do this. Is this possible? As it is now I have to have a profile set up for each user and run tzmove one by one. A: You can...

Q: We are in the middle of running the rebase tool now. It seems a large number of mailboxes are getting the "No log file was written for user" message. Does that mean the user has no calendar entries? or none that are in the delta period? A: It means...

Q: How can I verify that the extraction tools are actually showing all mailboxes? It seems as though some are missing from the reports. A: I am assuming that you are using msextmz.exe / msextmzcfg.exe. The tool will look at 3 properties on the mailbox...