Dear All ,

Currently i'm  doing a cross forest migration from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 

There are almost 7000 users in the 2007 environment who has plenty of rules in their outlook and this customer is much concerned about these outlook rules during this migration. He wants to make a bulk export and import of these rules.

Is there any good way through Powershell to export all these outlook  rules and import these rules in Exchange 2013 

Can i achieve something with Get-InboxRule  if its supported in Exchange 2007 ?

I can  list out all the existing rules in Exchange 2013 environment but i have a doubt that  if this command is supported in Exchange 2007 ?

$mbx = Get-Mailbox; $mbx | Foreach { Get-InboxRule -Mailbox $_.DistinguishedName }

Any help is much apprec

Hi Sathish,

Base on my knowledge, the command "Get-InboxRule" is not supported in Exchange 2007 cmdlet, it is first supported in exchange 2010.

The only way I can think now is let users to export the rules manually from outlook, and after maibox moving completed, import the rules again.

Import/Export rules

Best regards,

Hi Niko,

Thanks for your response

Hi Sathish ,

I agree with Niko.

Recently we have also done the cross forest migration from exchange 07 to 2013 .During that time we have asked our desktop support engineers to manually export the outlook rules form users PC .

Hi Niko and Nityanamdham

Can you guys confirm me if export and import of the rules on the new profile in the new mailbox in new forest will work ?

Hi Everyone,

Could someone help me on this request ?

Hi Sathish ,

Sorry for the delay .

1.Export the rules from outlook .

2.Migrate the mailbox to the target forest (i.e to exchange 2013) by using your procedures. 

3.Configure the new outlook profile and import the rules in to the migrated mailbox.

Scenario : In case if we would like to import the rules from anyone of the exchange 2007 mailbox to a newly created mailbox in exchange 2013 it will get imported .But we need to have the same folder structure ,conditions on the new mailbox to match the imported rules.

Below mentioned is the warning  which will happen when you try to do the above scenario.

Hi Nithya

The folders will come as such when we do a import but my question is will this work in altogether different forest ?

Hi Sathish ,

Just wanted to clarify are going to follow the first three steps or else you have plan to go with the scenario that i have described on my previous post?

Hi Nithya

My Question is very simple

Will export and import of the rules on the new profile in the new mailbox (with same sub-folders)in new forest will work ?

Hi ,

I am very sure about first three steps which would help us to have the imported rules to work on the migrated mailbox.

For your question : 

The rules which you are going to import to the new mailbox may work even though if the defined conditions and sub folders on rules are getting matched on the target mailbox.

But my personal suggestion is to go with first three steps.

Just an update Tested in staging and its working.

Hi Sathish,

Thanks for your update.Happy to hear the good news.