Exporting Icloud calendar to Outlook

Problem:

You have entries on your icloud or iphone which you want to export and import to other programs such as outlook.

Solution:

1. Login to https://icloud.com

2. Click on calendar

3. On the left, where it shows your calendar, click the small arrow and choose to share publically

4. Copy the public address and paste it into your browser address bar

5. Remote the ical prefex and replace it with http (so, the address ical://youricalendar.apple.com or whatever, would become http://youricalendar.apple.com

6. This will simply cause the file to download

6B. Don't forget to disable public access to your icalendar

7. These files don't have extensions - navigate to the windows folder options, view and find the radio button which says "hide extensions for known file types" and uncheck it, hit ok

8. Back at your icloud calendar file: Right Click.   Rename.   At the end of the file add ".vcs" 

9. In outlook, choose to import - an ics or vcs file

10. In the window which opens, you need to change the type of file it's looking for from ics to vcs, then, simply import your file

11. If you want it to make a new calendar, choose that option. If you want it to import it to your current calendar, choose that option.

12. Done.

Exporting Exchange 2010 to PST & import back

Problem:

Wanting to have a backup of user PSTS so I can import should other methods prove extraneous.

I've done windows backup, file level and NOT a disc image, due to UEFI and not being experienced enough to feel comfortable with that in production.

I want to export all users to a pst file for peace of mind, sanity and an alternative option that will be easier -- IE importing mailboxes into a new domain w/o giving a crap about preserving any of the old domain data.

Really, I want to avoid having to crap my pants when I realize that the last mailbox database name was done with a capital letter, typo, or the settings I'm trying to escape royally boned me.

This guide will walk you through , ultimately setting a script in motion to export all users from a database without any further intervention.

1. Set up the share to receive psts

Set up the shared folder,
create a folder  to be shared (I choose pst due to not having spaces in the path) and give "exchange trusted subsystem" both full security AND share priviledges -- I remove users, and add administrators and specifically the account i want to backup with.


make sure you can access the share

2. Discovering your Mailbox Database name:

I was having difficulties getting pointed to my mailbox. The name, according to other powershell guides I was following was to fqdn followed by "Mailbox Database" for the name, I couldn't get it to work with the server, it just wanted the domain - even then I had to bypass using guid


none of the commands would take what i thought it would be, or variations, so I found how to get the GUID which was accepted w/o fqdn  suspect database names

get-mailboxdatabase -storagegroup "First Storage Group" | fl 

Basically, when the script called for a database name, I used the guid.

I think it's not a fqdn and rather just a dn- fqdn means server included, so server.domain.local wasn't getting me there but domain.local would have. So I think it may have been just 'domain.extension\Mailbox Database'

3. Giving Permissions

Give the account you intend to run the backup from the correct priviledges by running this command
Change "-user administrator" to the username you intend to run the backups from

New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Role "Mailbox Import Export" –User Administrator

4. Run the script and wait

Open notepad and paste the following:

$mailboxes = get-mailbox
foreach ($mailbox in $mailboxes) {
new-mailboxexportrequest -mailbox $mailbox -FilePath \\server\pst\$mailbox.pst
}

Save the notepad file as a .ps1 - a powershell script.

Open the exchange console (powershell) and drag the script we just created in. It should appear w/o quotes around it and simply run.

You can check the status of the transfer  by typing

get-mailboxexportrequest

5. Importing:

After you've made your move, recreated the accounts, repeat steps 1-3

then run this powershell script

$mailboxes = get-mailbox
foreach ($mailbox in $mailboxes) {
new-mailboximportrequest -mailbox $mailbox -FilePath "\\server\shared\$mailbox.pst"
}

Done!

Further Jobs:

Find out reason for failure 

Get-MailboxExportRequest -status failed | Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics -IncludeReport | Format-List > \\$server\$share\filename.txt

Making powershell able to run scripts

Allow scripts: Set-executionpolicy unrestricted 

Disable Scripts: Set-executionpolicy restricted 

Note, if you have any difficulty with the scripts, keep in mind they're not cut and paste - you're going to have to change the path to match your environment (IE "server" should be your servername, "shared", the folder you've shared.)

Sources, cites & credit due:

Setting up permissions, shares: http://exchangeserverpro.com/export-mailboxes-exchange-server-2010-sp1

The Script to automate the exporting of users: http://www.cohesivelogic.com/2011/06/export-all-mailboxes-to-pst-in-exchange-2010-sp1/