Exchange migration Questions


Unable to create mailboxes in Exchange 2003
We are currently migrating from Exchange 5.5 to 2003. We have successfully installed the main Exchange 2003 into the first of our two Exchange 5.5 sites. However, we do not appear to be able to create a mailbox using ADUC on the Exchange 2003 server as yet. Is this expected behaviour, and we need to [...]

Answer Question   |  May 18, 2009  1:44 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 administration, Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 Migration, Exchange migration, Exchange Mixed Environment, Mailboxes
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45 pts.

I have a 2003 store, that I need to import in to Exchange 2007
Hi, I had a 2003 Exchange server running and it had to be taken offline. It was never brought back online, instead new hardware was installed. Now I have a full copy of the public folder can this be imported or opened in Exchange 2007?

Answer Question   |  June 7, 2009  6:59 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange Information Store, Exchange migration, Exchange Public Folders, Migrating Exchange public folders
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5 pts.

Exchange 2007 migration from Postfix
Can anyone guide me the best practise for migrating to Exchange Server 2007 from Postfix? If there’s a step by step guide will be appreciate. Thank you.

Answer Question   |  May 7, 2009  2:45 AM
Exchange 2007, Exchange migration, Postfix
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15 pts.

Exchange 2003 P2V
What is the best proven procedure for migrating a production exchange 2003 server to VMware ESXi?

Answer Question   |  May 4, 2009  2:07 PM
Exchange migration, P2V migrations, Physical to Virtual Migration, VMware, VMware ESX
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5 pts.

How Can I check the degree of fragmentation in Exchange 2003 database?
We are currently migrating over 6000 users from our existing Exchange 2003 environment to our new Exchange 2007 implementation. We have moved approximately 30% of our users, however, performance in the Exchange 2003 environment has degraded during this time period. We are running nightly maintenance, however, my exchange admin is unclear how to determine the [...]

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2009  9:16 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange Fragmentation, Exchange migration, Exchange performance, Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007 Upgrade, Exchange Server Upgrades, Exchange upgrades
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15 pts.

Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 migration
Anyone can help me for the steps to take for exchange migration 2003 to 2007

Answer Question   |  March 23, 2009  8:03 AM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 Migration, Exchange 2007, Exchange migration
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5 pts.

Moving folders from one ID to another?
Hi, I currently manage 2 notes ID’s where one is eventually going to no longer exist. Unfortunately that is the one that I have all my emails organized and in folders within notes. Is there a way to bring over, copy, or move the folders I want and have it the same way and organized [...]

Answer Question   |  March 14, 2009  9:16 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange Folder Migration, Exchange Folders, Exchange migration
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15 pts.

IMAP server migration to Exchange 2007
Hi, we are looking at migrating a legacy IMAP server system into Exchange 2007. We think the Transporter Suite doesn’t give us enough flexibility regarding scheduling jobs for example. So we would prefer do the migrations using Powershell cmdlets. A command that is refered to in a few blogs, etc. is Move-IMAPMailboxToExchange. When I try [...]

Answer Question   |  February 25, 2009  1:39 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange migration, IMAP, IMAP Migration, IMAP to Exchange Migration
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50 pts.

Checklist of items before migrating to Exchange Server 2007
We are a small organization with about 120 mailboxes and an IT team of two. We are in the process of swapping over to Exchange Server 2007, and we were wondering if there is a checklist of things we need to setup in Exchange 2007 before we swap over from our existing system. Can you [...]

Answer Question   |  February 19, 2009  2:48 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 Migration, Exchange migration
580 pts.

Exchange migration to a new forest
Hi, we are in the process of migrating our exchange 2003 server over to a new exchange 2003 server in a different forest. I’ve migrated accounts with sid history, migrated their local profile, migrated their mailbox, and used the exprofre.exe tool to modify their mapi profile. The first time they log in everything works as [...]

Answer Question   |  January 16, 2009  3:47 PM
email migration, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 ForestPrep, Exchange 2003 Migration, Exchange migration, exprofre.exe, Forest, Migration
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20 pts.

Move Exchange 2000 to new hardware
We plan to do an offline backup and restore to new hardware with Veritas Bare Metal Restore. We want to do an offline backup to prevent any mail flow. I have seen an article that talks about skipped files with offline backups of Exchange. Has anyone tried this before? Any advise?

Answer Question   |  January 8, 2009  4:16 PM
Backup and restore, Exchange 2000, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange migration
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5 pts.

How do i migrate from microsoft exchange to mail deamon
I have quite been using microsoft exchange for quite some time now. I lately discovered that my user licence for the users has been exhausted.Hence i my organisation continue to grow everyday with the number of users been on an increase as well. Someone gave me an idea of migrating some of my users from [...]

Answer Question   |  March 10, 2009  6:56 PM
Exchange, Exchange migration, Mail daemon, Migration from exchange to mail deamon
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5 pts.

Do you know a good tool to migrate users + mailbox + personnal address book from Exchange to Domino?
I do not know yet the Exchange version (maybe 5.5 or 2003) but the target will be Domino 7.0.1 in an existing domain of our company. There will be about 300-400 users. Any advice ? TIA

Answer Question   |  December 5, 2008  8:55 AM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Exchange migration, Exchange Server, Exchange Server import/export, Exchange to Lotus migration, Lotus Address Book, Lotus Domino, Lotus Domino 7.0.1, Lotus Domino Server 7.x, Lotus email, Lotus migration, Lotus Notes import/export, Personal Address Book
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4,075 pts.

how to export get the list of users using the resouce mail boxes
Hi, I migrating from exchange 5.5 to 2003 anyone know how I can get an extract the list of the users who have access to the resource mail boxes.

Answer Question   |  November 24, 2008  3:38 PM
Exchange 5.5, Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 Migration, Exchange migration, Shared mailboxes
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30 pts.

Exchange 2003 migration fails at ForestPrep
I have one Win2003 AD Forest with one AD Domain in native mode. The DCs are Win2003 SP1. After completing all the steps leading up to the actual Exchange 2003 server installation (including ForestPrep), the installation fails at the point of “Configuring registry entries for Microsoft Windows Active Directory schema update”. I attempted to re-install [...]

Answer Question   |  November 12, 2008  4:49 PM
Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 ForestPrep, Exchange 2003 Migration, Exchange migration, Forest, ForestPrep
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10 pts.

migrating from exchange 5.5 to exchange 2003
Moving a few users at a time. How to I forward mail from exchange 2003 to exchange 5.5 for users that have yet to be migrated? Would appreciate any help.

Answer Question   |  November 13, 2008  10:18 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 Migration, Exchange migration, Migration
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5 pts.

OST files
We are migrating users from one exchange server to another. the users sit in remote sites and use very slow links to connect to the exchange server. Is it possible to use the old ost on the pc for the new exchange server instead of recreating the ost with the new exchange server, which can [...]

Answer Question   |  November 4, 2008  12:32 PM
.OST files, Encryption keys, Exchange migration, Exchange Server
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10 pts.

Migration of Exchange 2003from SBS to Standard Server
I have an existing Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 and I would like to know how, if at all possible, to copy all the existing data (Active Directory and Exchange Server) over to a new Windows 2003 Standard server

Answer Question   |  October 29, 2008  6:39 PM
Exchange 2000, Exchange migration, SBS 2003, Windows Server 2003
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5 pts.

Exchange Server 2003 and use ISA 2004 to publish OWA and HTTP/RPC
We currently have Exchange 2003 and use ISA 2004 to publish OWA and HTTP/RPC. We are now moving to Exchange 2007 and have only seen clear instruction on using ISA 2006. Is the bottom line that I also have to go ISA 2006?

Answer Question   |  October 28, 2008  2:23 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange migration, Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007 Upgrade, HTTP over RPC, ISA Server 2004, ISA Server 2006, Outlook Web Access, OWA
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16,755 pts.

migrating public folder from old exchange 2003 server to new exchange 2003
I am planning to migrate public folder from old exchange 2003 server to new exchange 2003. Old Exchange is first exchange in enterprise. I replicated public folder with new exchange. But, still when I make old exchange public folder offline. Users unable to get access any folder or file from public folder. Please can you [...]

Answer Question   |  October 15, 2008  2:52 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange migration, Public folders
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16,755 pts.