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Mail missing from one account coincides with VM move of Exchange server

Coinciding with an Exchange VM move from one host to another, email previous to a certain date went missing for one account (out of 40). It was restored from tape, but we're looking for a reason why it happened. This employee had just left, two users had full access to the mailbox and were actively using it. We found nothing conclusive on the Exchange/ Outlook end. Is there a risk of data loss when moving a VM and where would I look (log file) for an explanation?

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weinstein5
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To be honest I do not think the issue is with the migration - to me it smells like one of the users accessing the mail either manually moved mail out of the mailbox or intiated auto archive - IMO if something were to occurduring the migration the whole mailbox would be corrupt not from a specific date and not just a single mailbox -

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weinstein5
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To be honest I do not think the issue is with the migration - to me it smells like one of the users accessing the mail either manually moved mail out of the mailbox or intiated auto archive - IMO if something were to occurduring the migration the whole mailbox would be corrupt not from a specific date and not just a single mailbox -

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DavidKlee
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Agreed. A vMotion would not have directly affected the Exchange storage of just that missing mail. Do the Exchange logs note any usual entries from that time window?

David Klee | Founder and Chief Architect | Heraflux Technologies | dklee@heraflux.com
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Thanks...I told them that this was more than likely user created, but asked that I get validation.

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cmcg1
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"Do the Exchange logs note any usual entries from that time window?"

Unfortunately not.

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