Exchange Move Mailbox Experiences Part 4

The previous part (part 3) addressed Mailbox Size but did you know that even Message Size (or rather Item size) can prevent a successful move as well?

Here’s an example move mailbox log:

2-10-2011 3:18:58 [The Exchange Server] A corrupted item was encountered during the move operation. The item wasn't copied to the destination mailbox.

  verzonden nov 2004-aug 2005
  Jane Doe
  
  Foto's afscheid John Doe 10 februari jl.
  IPM.Note
  76121694
  02/15/2005 15:28:06
  02/15/2005 15:28:06
  Message (size 72.6 MB (76,121,694 bytes)) exceeds the maximum allowed size for submission to the target mailbox. You can increase this limit by using the Set-Mailbox cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell.
Error details: MapiExceptionMaxSubmissionExceeded: IExchangeFastTransferEx.TransferBuffer failed (hr=0x80004005, ec=1242)
Diagnostic context:

As you can see in the log this mailbox there is one item with a size of 72 MegaBytes.

Let’s see this in Outlook:

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It gets even worse when we open the Message:

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It was addresses to several internal recipients and as you know Exchange 2010 no longer supports Single Instance Storage