In today’s
corporate world, every organization requires an ideal email client as an
efficient communication medium. And Lotus Notes and MS Outlook are the two most
important email clients that have the maximum influence. So if an organization
is using Lotus Notes email client, and if they are required to migrate NSF
files into PST file format, then situation becomes more difficult in this case during
the migration of large sized NSF files to PST file format.
There is an
exclusive service offered by Microsoft for migration called ‘Microsoft
Transporter Suite’ to easily export users mailboxes from Lotus Notes Server to
MS Exchange Server. But sometimes this utility fails to provide exact result as
expected, even fails during large sized NSF file migration; and displays the
following error message:
"The message was migrated without the attachments. This error might
be due to configuration limitations on the server.
Error
details: Maximum request length exceeded."
Cause of error: Actually
the reason is simple, Web services does not migrate data or attachments which
are larger than default size limit i.e. 4MB until and unless any additional
configuration is made. But you can
easily get out of this situation by making some changes in the settings. To
setup this, you just need to increase two variables: input stream buffer
threshold value and the execution time-out period.
Resolution of error:
Follow the
below steps to accomplish this target:
a)
Open the Web.config file located under the
following directory:
drive:\%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft\Exchange
Server\ClientAccess\exchweb\ews
b) In the
Web.config file, add the following line
after the tag:
<system.web>
<httpRuntimeexecutionTimeout="1200"
maxRequestLength="51200" />
c) For your information,
executionTimeout attribute is in
seconds which indicate the maximum number of seconds that a request can run
before ASP.NET automatically stop the request. The maxRequestLength is in Kilobytes (KB). Both of these attributes
should be configured according to your environment need.
d) Then save
the changes, and close the Web.config file.
e)
Finally, Restart the World Wide Web publishing
service.
As you have
followed the steps mentioned above, you can assure of increase in the input
stream buffering threshold value. Now, if you want to migrate the 4MB size email
from Lotus Notes Server to MS Exchange Server, there won’t be any issue in
migration.
But if the same problem still exists, then you must use a trusted and
reliable third party tool for easy and hassle free email migration. Use Stellar NSF to PST Converter utility for
efficient conversion of .nsf files to usable .pst file. There are many user
oriented features which makes it a well-known renowned product among all the
software available in the market. As this software is user friendly, it
performs the whole conversion process in just few clicks.
