Kind ladies and gentlemen, looking for a little feedback on an Exchange mess that I've been tasked with handling.
We're located in the USA and recently we purchased a company based out of the UK. The administration has asked me to consolidate the Exchange servers (one at each company) into a single server. Of course I protested veheminently about having a single server for both the US and UK, gave them many many reasons why it shouldn't be done, but ultimately the decision was theirs.... AH well.... We're currently running Exch5.5 on an NT4 domain, and the purchased company is running the same... I am in the process of testing and preparing to deploy Win2K and AD here in the USA... After AD's in place I plan to upgrade our Exch5.5 to Exch2K. Now for the messy part... I need to get the UK's mailboxes moved to our Exch2K server... What I was planning was this: Upgrade their network to Win2K as a child domain of ours... Then using Exmerge, pull out their mailboxes and transfer them to our Exchange server (they've only got a 600mb priv.edb, so it's nothing compared to our 90Gb database)... I've read on migration strategies, etc, but nothing really covers moving mail from one domain to another or if making them a child domain (basically creating a two way transitive trust between the two domains) gets around the problem... So the questions are these: Can I make new mailboxes on the USA Exch2K server from users in the child domain in the UK (I assume the answer is yes, but I haven't gotten that far in testing yet and I'm just trying to avoid some head banging if someone can tell me it can't be done)? Is there an easier way to accomplish this? How can I move the Public folders to our Exch server? Thanks in advance for your kind wisdom. Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
