RE: Exch2k3 migration to different AD, Forest

From: "Periyasamy, Raj" <Raj.Periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:10:40 -0500
Mike,
You have a typical situation here.
I would think of doing the following,

1) Create a most recent full backup of your exchange IS and ship it to
the new location.
2) Create CSVDE files of user object, groups DLs and ship it to the new
location.
3) In the new location Install Exchange, import the CSVDE files to the
AD. DO not mail enable any users yet, you have to make sure the CSVDE
does not have email attributes.

4) Then restore the backup from the other location and redirect to the
new server. Make sure you create a Mailbox store with the identical name
as the other location for this to work.

5) Once the restore is done, run a clean up of the mailboxes, then use
the MBConnect (Mailbox connect) utility to connect the existing user
objects to the restored mailboxes. MBConnect should automatically link
the mailbox to the corresponding user based on the alias name. 

6) I have done this in a test environment. I suggest you play around
with MDBconnect before implementing in production.

7) The reason I don't favor PST file method is, it is more time
consuming, and it grows the size of your priv.ed as all single instance
storage is lost.


HTH


Regards,

Raj


-----Original Message-----
From: A. Michael Salim [mailto:msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:06 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] Exch2k3 migration to different AD, Forest

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Hi,

I am migrating an Exchange server with about 100 users from one
Geographical location to another.  There are about 100 mailboxes and
over
100GB of mailbox space so migrating all content over the Internet is not
feasible.  Furthermore, the new and old Exchange servers are not related
to
each other in any way such as AD, GC, Forest, and no trust
relationships.
It is a pure Internet (TCP/IP and no NetBios etc) interconnection
between
old and new servers, not even a VPN.

Here is the procedure I am following:

a) On the old sever, use Exmerge to export the mailboxes to PST files
and
save to a USB drive Use CSVDE and LDIFDE to export the users and groups
and save to same USB drive.

b) Ship USB drive to new location.

c) On new server, used LDIFDE and/or CSVDE to recreate users and groups.

d) On new server, import all the PST files 9which by now are a few days
old).

My questions are:

1) Is this a "best practice" method for these circumstances or is there
a
better way to do this?

2) After all the users are created and mailboxes imported, how do I
"synchronize" the two servers (old and new) so that the mailboxes on the
new server are "up to date" before I switch over the DNS?  Otherwise I
will either have a gap of a few days in the mailboxes, or I will need to
all Exchange services completely on the old server for 1-2 days while
the
USB drive is being exported, shipped, and imported? (the incoming email
would be diverted to a store-and-forward secondary mailserver during
this
process, of course).  Needless to say, stopping the Exchange server for
any length of time is not feasible since these are busy users who rely
heavily on their email.

best regards
Mike


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