ExMerge has always been a vital tool for administrators that needed to migrate large amounts of mailboxes to new Exchange hardware or new Exchange software but somehow, Microsoft decided it needed to be killed off in Exchange 2007. Many complaints followed from the Exchange community and it seems Microsoft has been listening because in the feature list for Exchange 2007 SP1 I found this tidbit:
Move Mailbox
This vital administrator tool has been beefed up to include import and export to a .pst
Even though Microsoft somehow now calls ‘Move Mailbox’ a ‘vital administrator tool’ (though it should be ‘move-mailbox’ since only the powershell cmdlet is actually quite powerful), it still means that import/export to .pst functionality will be back before the end of the year! I think that when SP1 is released, the Exchange community will make it a new worldwide holiday! 
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