And your problems are....? Chris Wall Sr. Exchange Administrator MCSE, MCSA Chris.Wall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx T - 919.460.3236 F - 919.468.4889 Global Knowledge Network LEARNING. To Make a Difference http://www.globalknowledge.com -----Original Message----- From: Mohammed Tantawi [mailto:mtantawi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:03 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Exmerg'ing mailboxes between sites... http://www.MSExchange.org/ Can you please help me to solve my problems -----Original Message----- From: Chris Wall [mailto:Chris.Wall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 22 ?? ?????, 1425 06:52 ? To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Exmerg'ing mailboxes between sites... http://www.MSExchange.org/ Chris, In preparation for my Exchange 2003 Upgrade, I consolidated two sites in Exchange 5.5. I know there are tools to do this during the 2003 upgrade, however, I did not like some of the 'repercussions' of using those tools. So I decided to Consolidate the sites prior to the upgrade... I did this over this past weekend (long weekend) and everything went smoothly. If you would like, I can send you my work breakdown structure that detailed this successful consolidation. These steps include rehoming public folders from the site/server, PF replication, PFInfo and PFAdmin utility steps, X.500/X.400 replication to the new site/server, mailbox recreation using Directory import and export, DL recreation, Custom recipient recreation, etc... The hardest part of the entire move was having to re-assign Public Folder permissions using the 'recreated' Distribution lists. Contact me off-line if you would like a copy of my steps to help you in this process.... Regards, Chris Wall Sr. Exchange Administrator MCSE, MCSA Chris.Wall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx T - 919.460.3236 F - 919.468.4889 Global Knowledge Network LEARNING. To Make a Difference http://www.globalknowledge.com -----Original Message----- From: Mulnick, Al [mailto:Al.Mulnick@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:19 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Exmerg'ing mailboxes between sites... http://www.MSExchange.org/ Personally, I would not use a forwarding rule vs. an alternate recipient. Rules can be more flaky. One thing you're not showing is what you intend to do with the user's legacy mail and replies. When you test this, you'll want to make sure that replies will properly route and that PAB entries don't break just because you moved sites. X.500/X.400 addresses should be included in this process. -ajm -----Original Message----- From: Stainer, Chris [mailto:stainerc@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 4:50 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Exmerg'ing mailboxes between sites... http://www.MSExchange.org/ All, Our environment is NT 4.0, Exchange 5.5, and Outlook 2003. I am producing a technical note for our internal support staff, and have identified the following steps as 'best practice' for transferring Exchange mailboxes between sites (when Move Mailbox cannot be used); 1. Create new mailbox on destination server. 2. Set alternate recipient on source mailbox to redirect e-mail to destination mailbox (after waiting for scheduled replication to occur so that the new mailbox is visible in the address book). 3. Exmerge data from the source mailbox. 4. Initialise the destination mailbox in the information store. 5. Exmerge data back to destination mailbox. 6. Remove SMTP address from source mailbox and add to destination mailbox (after waiting for scheduled replication to occur to eliminate errors stating that the address already exists). 7. Reconfigure the MAPI client for the end user to point to the new mailbox or recreate profile if user has an offline OST. Step 7 is down to experience with users reporting synchronisation issues following mailbox transfer. Support is restricted from forcing manual replication (Step 6), and requires an admin with further permissions to perform this action. Is it better to create a forwarding rule within Outlook rather than configure alternate recipient (Step 2)? Does anyone here follow the same, or a more efficient process? Thanks in advance, Chris S Visit our website at http://www.halcrow.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The contents of this email do not give rise to any binding legal obligation upon Halcrow Group Limited unless subsequently confirmed on headed business notepaper sent by fax, letter or as an e-mail attachment. If you receive this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the message. 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