RE: Exchange newbie

[Garland Mac Neill]

Title: Message

That's the idea.  Another thing I do is, move the smaller non essential employees first. I.e. Interns, recuirters, .... Leave the directors and ceos till last.   -----Original Message----- From: Sanborn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange newbie   At first I thought you were being a smart-ass about taking the server down during a busy period, but thinking on it a bit more, that does make a lot of sense.  You get instant feed back on whether or not everything was move successfully.   Thanks for the tip. john -----Original Message----- From: Garland Mac Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange newbie Personally...   I would move all mailboxes one at time. Slowly. Then I would setup the connector and then kill the old connector. Wait for a few days and make sure it's all up and running. Then in the middle of a busy day shut down the old server.   Don't forget to change the MX record to point to the new server.   Someone on here has the link to the Ed Crowley method. Kevin or William for sure. Might ask them for that.   -----Original Message----- From: John R. Clark III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange newbie   So I have decided to switch over my server this way....   Shut off the mail connectors on the old server. Run the exchange migrator to move all the old mail to the new server. Shut down the old server. Add the netbios name and ip to the new server that were all the old one. Restart the new server and hope that all the mail deliever goes ok and the clients can all see it ok. Then have the mx record changed in a few days and drop the old ip.   Anyone see any problems with this idea?   -----Original Message----- From: John R. Clark III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 6:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange newbie I am trying to upgrade an NT4.0 Exchange 5.5 sp6 server that is in use full time to a Windows 2000 Exchange 2000 machine. The exchange 5.5 server has been used for some 5 years with no problems. The old server was misconfigured to with a different netbios name from mx record, with aliases in the user mailboxes. I ran the exchange server migration wizard and migrated the messages to the new mailboxes without errors or warnings. What I have and would like to know... oldserver ---- netbios = some_name dns = another_name.subnet.domain.edu mx = mail.subnet.domain.edu newserver ---- netbios = newname dns = newname.subnet.domain.edu   I would like to move the mx record and start getting the mail delievered to the new server...am I going to have problems? Is there a way to syncronize the 2 servers so that mail is delievered between to 2 servers to the old and new mailboxes? I am afraid that I might miss some messages durring the mx record changeover and will need to syncronize them. I am also worried about the mailbox rules people have defined. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm