The mailbox move utility would only allow 10-12 instances at a time, so I used the built-in scheduler to kick them off every couple of hours. With 300 boxes/200GB, it took Thursday night(11pm-7am), Friday night, and most of the weekend to move them. The old box was kind of a dog though.
From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate To add to Scot, What exchange services are you running? I constantly lecture about having exchange off the DC and putting money into mail, but some folks use exchange MAPI in office only for small businesses and it totally works fine. If you have intentions of running OWA, OA, EAS.....you probably need to separate Exchange and depending on the number of clients really think about a separate Client Access box. As for labor time, once again it depends on how many users and how many services you decide to run. If you have done this before and are familiar with the whole process you could do it in a couple hours in the simplest case. I know that my dev environment install took 3 times longer than my production as I ran into little unexpected pieces... things like needing to have a 32 bit copy of Exchange 2007 to apply the schema extensions to my 32bit schema master (which is in a separate domain). Good luck, sorry I couldn't be more specific on the timeframe. -troy From: Scot Parsons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:44 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate How many and how big are the mailboxes? I would take this opportunity to separate Exchange from DC, but that's just me. From: ExchList [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate I have a Windows 2000 / Exchange 2000 network that is scheduled for an upgrade to Windows 2003 / Exchange 2007. Server1: Windows 2000 Domain Controller, file/print Server2: Windows Domain Controller, Exchange 2000 Upgrade to > Server1: Windows 2003 Domain Controller, File/print (new box) Server2: Windows 2003 Domain Controller, Exchange 2007. (new box) Understanding that my question is probably as uncertain as any answer I'll receive, but I would like to ask if anyone can give me a rough estimate of labor hours involved to perform the upgrade. P.S. Sarcasm is more than welcomed. Joseph Danielsen, CSBS, MCSA-Messaging, MCP Network Blade Inc. 49 Marcy Street Somerset, NJ 08873 732-213-0600 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
