RE: migrating accounts from Exch 2000 to REMOTE Exch 2003
- From: "A. M. Salim" <msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 22:28:19 -0500 (EST)
Hi,
> This sounds like a job for exmerge. Exmerge will export the contents of an
> exchange database to pst files. You can then use exmerge to import the data
> back onto your new exchange server. You will have to create the user accounts
> and exchange mailboxes on the new exchange server by hand or with a script.
Thanks for the tip on exmerge which will migrate PST files. The PST files
will contain the mailboxes, however what about calendars and public
folders? If the PST files do not hold calendars and public folders, I
need to bring the calendars and public folders some other way ... any
suggestions?
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A. M. Salim [mailto:msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 4:09 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] migrating accounts from Exch 2000 to REMOTE Exch 2003
>
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>
> Hi,
>
> I am getting ready to migrate about 400 users who are currently on Exch 2000
> to a new Exch 2003 server. I am somewhat familiar with the procedure for
> moving mailboxes when both servers are in the same forest or LAN e.g.
> using the "exchange 2003 move mailbox wizard", but I have a slight
> complication. The old Exchange 2000 server is in a different city, it
> belongs to a completely different organization, we have no Administrator
> access to it and there is no feasibility of having any direct connection with
> it. This old Exchange 2000 server also hosts many other organizations and
> the current hosting company will not want to give us direct access to that
> Exchange 2000 server. And the data size is substantial, somewhere between
> 10GB and 20GB total. I have read up on the documentation such as:
>
> http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Migrating-Exchange2000-Exchange-2003-Hard
> ware.html
> http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange_2003_Move_Mailbox_Wizard.html
>
> The admins at the old Exchange 2000 server are willing to export whatever
> data we need to a USB drive which they will ship to us. So what should I
> tell them to export to the USB and how? I would like to get the mailbox
> contents, the PST files, the shared calendars, shared public folders, global
> address lists, and distribution lists.
>
> And once I have the USB drive, what is the best way to import the data?
>
> TIA for your help!
>
> best regards
> Mike.
>
>
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