New-MigrationBatch -excludefolders fails claiming 'excludefolders' is not a parameter

Question

Hi. I have been migrating users with no issue for awhile now. I finally ran into my first issue where an account will not migrate. When I look at the report for this user, I see this:
Regular Items: 921, 331.2 MB (347,243,378 bytes)
Regular Deleted Items: 155, 6.936 MB (7,273,005 bytes)
FAI Items: 76, 0 B (0 bytes)
FAI Deleted Items: 0, 0 B (0 bytes)
12/2/2014 3:00:40 PM [server01] Stage: FinalIncrementalSync. Percent complete: 95.
12/2/2014 3:00:40 PM [server01] Mailbox store finalization is complete.
12/2/2014 3:00:40 PM [server01] SessionStatistics updated.
12/2/2014 3:00:40 PM [server01] Verifying mailbox contents...
12/2/2014 3:00:45 PM [server01] A missing item was encountered: Missing Item (IPM.Note) Subject:"Fake Subject for sake of posting", Folder:"Deleted Items"
There were a lot of these entries and then this is the last part of the report:
12/2/2014 3:00:46 PM [server01] Mailbox contents verification complete: 64 folders, 978 items, 331.2 MB (347,240,561 bytes).
12/2/2014 3:00:46 PM [server01] Stage: FinalIncrementalSync. Percent complete: 95.
12/2/2014 3:00:46 PM [server01] Fatal error TooManyMissingItemsPermanentException has occurred.
I deleted the migration batch and recreated it. The same errors were seen. I don't know if there is a time frame where these messages will be fully deleted and no longer be attempted to be moved by future migration attempts. If so, how long do I wait until
trying to migrate this user again?
Specifically to the title of this post, I attempted to create a migration request that would exclude the "Deleted Items" folder since all the failures were in that folder. I tried to create the migration batch using this command:
new-migrationbatch -name move1 -csvdata ([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("C:\move1.csv")) -baditemlimit 100 -targetdatabases "db 1" -ExcludeFolders "Deleted Items"
I get this error when I try to create that migration batch:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>new-migrationbatch -local -name move1 -csvdata ([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("C:\move1.csv")) -baditemlimit 100 -targetdatabases "db 1" -excludefolders "Deleted Items"
A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'excludefolders'.
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-MigrationBatch], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NamedParameterNotFound,New-MigrationBatch
    + PSComputerName        : server01.domain.com
I looked at the documentation for New-MigrationBatch (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219166%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx) and it says that -excludefolders is a parameter. Why cannot I not get a batch to create using this parameter?

Answer 1

Hi,
The
ExcludeFolders parameter is available only in the cloud-based service. It is not available in on-premises Exchange 2013.
From the description of error “TooManyMissingItemsPermanentException has occurred”, we can identify the items it has a problem with by the following cmdlet
get-moverequest -identity <user's identity> |get-moverequeststatistics-includereport |fl
That will tell where the problematic items are in the user's folder hierarchy. They can then be deleted before trying again with the move.
If this issue persists, there is a workaround by changing ContentVerificationMissingItemThreshold parameter in MsExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config (Path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin)
After that we need to restart Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Replication service then try migration.
Hope this will be helpful for you.