[ExchangeList] Re: Migrating an Exchange 2003 server from one AD to another AD
- From: "Periyasamy, Raj" <Raj.Periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:25:41 -0500
JW,
Since you don't have a wan link between the two datacenters, it makes it
difficult for any in place migration. How come users are connected to
the new Datacenter, but not the existing Datacenter? You have very few
options if you want to do seamless migration to the new forest. The best
option would have been to use ADMT v3 to migrate the existing forest to
the new forest. This will also migrate passwords and workstations. But,
since you don't have any links between the forests, that's not an
option. I can only think of two options for you,
1) Physical Server move, including all DC and Exchange Servers to the
new location. Then do an interforest migration.
2) Create the new forest in the new Datacenter, manually migrate all
user accounts using LDIFDE. This would not migrate passwords. The
workstations would have to be rejoined to the new domain.
My best recommendation:
Get a link between the datacenters, at least for the duration of the
migration, and use ADMT v3.
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Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 4:25 PM
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Subject: [ExchangeList] Re: Migrating an Exchange 2003 server from one
AD to another AD
Hello Raj,
Abou 150 users, on one Exchange 2003 Enterprise server. The data
centers are many miles apart. No users are physically re-loacting,
everyone is staing in place and keeping the same email addresses. Just
the server needs to move to a new AD.
Thanks!
JW
On Jan 4, 2008 10:48 AM, Periyasamy, Raj <Raj.Periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
How many users do you have? How many servers? How far apart are
the two data centers? Are the user workstations relocating or remain in
the same place?
Regards,
Raj
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Subject: [ExchangeList] Migrating an Exchange 2003 server from
one AD to another AD
Hi,
I have an Exchange 2003 server which we want to move completely
from one AD (in one data center) to a new AD in a new data center.
There is no connection between the two AD's i.e. they are not part of
the same forest or anything, no VPN connections between the two data
centers, etc. The current AD is a stand-alone AD. The new AD has
multiple OU's in it and this server's users would ideally occupy a new
sub OU in the new AD. The mailboxes and content thereof, users, email
domain name addresses and aliases, etc. must remain the same. Ideally
even the login and password should not change.
Is there a way to do this migration easily and quickly? Ideally
we would like to simply move the server from one data center to another,
do whatever configuration changes are needed without having to
export/import mailboxes, re-configure users etc. Definiley we would
like to avoide a "re-install" if at all possible. Any suggestions?
For example, is it possible to simply have the server join the
new Active Directory or is there more to it than that?
Thanks very much in advance.
JW
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