The only way i got to make a successful exmerge onto exchange 2003 was to put a user that wasn't an Exchange full administrator, grant full mailbox access rights to that user, and then give him exchange admin rights. Do it in this exact order ;) Tiago de Aviz SoftSell - Curitiba (41) 340-2363 www.softsell.com.br Esta mensagem, incluindo seus anexos, tem caráter confidencial e seu conteúdo é restrito ao destinatário da mensagem. Caso você tenha recebido esta mensagem por engano, queira por favor retorná-la ao destinatário e apagá-la de seus arquivos. Qualquer uso não autorizado, replicação ou disseminação desta mensagem ou parte dela é expressamente proibido. A SoftSell não é responsável pelo conteúdo ou a veracidade desta informação. -----Mensagem original----- De: A. M. Salim [mailto:msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Enviada em: quinta-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2005 07:37 Para: [ExchangeList] Assunto: [exchangelist] Exmerge question http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi, I am moving some users from an Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003 installation. The two sites are geographically distant and belong to two different companies, on different networks with no trust relationships between them and none feasible. So my only option is to export the users to PST files using Exmerge from the old server on to a USB drive, ship the USB drive with PST files by snail mail (Fedex actually) and then use Exmege at the other end to import them. The AD and OU trees are quite different between the two organizations. For example: in the old server all users were under the same OU. In the new server, there are several OU's and the users are spread between the OU's. It is not feasible to change the OUs in the new server to match the old sever's AD tree structure at all. I ran Exmerge and see the following. Only the MAILBOXES.TXT log file is generated, and it has the following lines in it, one per user: ##~This file was generated by ExMerge.exe /O=ABCD/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=USERONE /O=ABCD/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=USERTWO ... /O=ABCD/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=USERXXX And Exmerge announces "Success: 0, Failures: nnn" i.e. all users failed to import. I have "Send As" and "Receive As" perms set OK and can do exports and imports on the new server OK i.e. export a mailbox, import it back on the same server. Are there any tricks or settings I have to do here because the OUs are different between the old and new servers? Any other differences I need to be concerned with? TIA! Mike Salim ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: tiago@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx