RE: Excahneg 5.5 to Exchange 2003 Migration Qu estion
- From: "Sarbjit Singh Gill" <ssgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'[ExchangeList]'" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:29:39 +0800
Exmerge can copy or move(delete/remove from source) messages. An example is
where you would want to delete a certain mail messages from everybody's
mailbox. It could be a virus infected mail or some confidential mail
realised to everybody mailbox accidently.
/Gill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naboth Semwayo [mailto:naboths@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 7:36 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Excahneg 5.5 to Exchange 2003
> Migration Qu estion
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> Can I use exmerge to extract mailboxes from my live Exchange
> server for use on my test platform. Confirm exmerge COPIES
> mail data and doesnt MOVE it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sarbjit Singh Gill [mailto:ssgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 4:21 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Excahneg 5.5 to Exchange 2003
> Migration Question
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> Greetings Naboth
>
> (sorry for the accidental send earlier without typing
> anything) Here the answers are in-line.
>
> >
> > 1) do I create the mailboxes first under Exchange 2003 and then use
> > exmerge to put the messages in there? Also bear in my AD
> user accounts
> > have alreday been migrated.
> The Exmerge logic really has nothing to do with creating
> directory entries or creating store objects if they don't
> already exist. Exmerge simply read the existing data and then
> we'll initialize an object in the store if it hasn't been
> initialized in Exchange 2003. In Exchange 5.5, it needs to
> already have been there. So the logic is the same as on
> Outlook client. So think of it as, can you take an Outlook
> client, just pull it up, and then specify a mailbox, and then
> it will create it for you. The answer is, no. So the
> administrator still needs to create those mailboxes, and then
> use Exmerge as the tool to transport the data.
>
> > 2) Can I not automate the mailbox creation process like you can in
> > Exchange
> > 5.5 by using the directory import option to import from a CSV? And
> > after the mailboxes are created then use exmerge.
> Yes you can.
>
> > 3)How does exmerge correctly determine which mailbox to dump the
> > imported messages to when you have lots of pst files.
> The mailbox on the destination server must have the same
> mailbox name and the same container path. The Distinguished
> Name (DN) of the mailbox on the destination server is
> obtained by replacing the Organization and Site names in the
> DN of the mailbox on the source server with the Organization
> and Sites names of the destination server.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Naboth
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Gill
>
>
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