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Exchange 2003 to exchange 2010 transition

Hiten — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:47:08 +0000

Hi

I am in the process of transitioning from Ex2003 to Ex2010. We have a very simple exchange structure at the moment. just a single exchange 2003 server all running of one box.

i have seen various blogs/articles on the transitioning from ex 2003 to ex 2010 and i think i am partly the way there. So far i have got the 2 virtual servers running one with ex 2010 CAS/HUB and another with Ex2010 Mailbox role. a lot of the settings have pulled over from the ex2003 server (connectors etc)

Iv not really had to do anything to the CAS/HUB server so far on the mailbox server i have moved a few test mail boxes and also created some new ones. they seem to send e mails correctly and recieve them from internal and external so i know the mail flow settings are ok.

We use OWA on out exchange 2003 – is there anything that needs to be done for OWA on 2010.

i have got the PF replicating from 2003 to 2010.

some information i would like is about how Recipent update policy works in 2010 and how to move it over from 2003 and also about Address Lists.

the thing i want to know about RUS is we have it set in exchange 2003 to add the various address and formats normally first.surname@domain.com. but we have also manually added addresses that are not part of the RUS eg. first@domain.com or initials@domain.com when i move this policy over to the ex 2010 server will it re apply the policy and wipe addresses added manually to the users?

any help would be much appciated

Thanks

Exchange 2003 to 2010 transition – replica problem

ABrianInIT — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:59:31 +0000

I am transitioning an Exchange 2003 server to an Exchange 2010 server. As soon as I got the Exchange 2010 server up and going, I changed the paths of the DBs and the PublicFolder DB. I then also renamed the Default Public Folder from PublicFolderDatabase0224351747 to PFdb. Everything was going great, and everything sees the new name I assigned to the DB. So, I got to the stage where you right click the Public Folder Store on the Exchange 2003 box and select Move All Replicas. It showed the PFdd and I selected. However, the replication never worked. When I drilled down, I noticed the messages in the queue for the server-to-server connector. I drilled down to the message and noticed it is addressed to PublicFolderDatabase0224351747@blablabla.com instead of PFdb@blablabla.com. I have checked everywhere and I cannot seem to figure out why it is still referencing the old PF database name. Any ideas?

Exchange server 2003 to Exchange server 2010 migration question

ITKE — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:33:45 +0000

Should the Forest and Domains functional level be changed to Windows Server 2008
R2
before we start the exchange migration process? all our domain controllers are windows server 2008 R2