Auto exmerge for exchange

I'm often asked about a nice script for automating exmerge for exchange. This creates pst backups of each mailbox for easy recovery. There are problems if a mailbox is over 2GB but I'll cover that another day.

For the moment create your exmerge user and give them the appropriate rights to the mail store. Then right click on exmerge and run as and use your desired settings, don't forget to click save settings at the end. THis saves your choices to the ini file.

After that create a batch file with the following text:

del D:\exmerge\old\*.pst
copy D:\exmerge\*.pst D:\exmerge\old\
C:
cd \
cd "Program Files"
cd Exchsrvr
cd BIN
EXMERGE -F EXMERGE.ini -B -D

And then create a recurring task using the above user with this batch file. It couldn't be simpler.

I'll add a bit more explanation later.