Thanks, I will put this (and all the other!) suggestions forward to the man in charge and let him decide what he wants me to do. I think a lot of snapshots and backups are in order first though :-)
2008/6/27 Ehren Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I believe you are correct about the trust, there is no way to directly > migrate (mailbox to mailbox via exchange) without one AD being able to talk > to and trust the other. > > > > There is however a pretty workable solution via the Microsoft Transporter > Suite for Internet Mail. Using this you can copy mail from one IMAP/POP > server (your old exchange) to your exchange 2007 system. It works very > well, we recently used it to migrate our users from our old unix mail system > to MS exchange 2007. > > > > Download: > > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=35fc4205-792b-4306-8e4b-0de9cce72172&DisplayLang=en > > > > Release Notes: > > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=362db2ca-b254-4301-b506-749f90ad8669&DisplayLang=en > > > > If you need any further info on it let me know, I have some experience > using it. > > > > Ehren J. Benson, MCSE > > *Windows Systems Administrator* > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 517-884-5469 > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Friday, June 27, 2008 3:22 AM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Exchange migration > > > > Just wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction as to how to > attack this Exchange issue I have, I am not really an Exchange admin at any > level, but unfortunately everyone else at my current employer knows even > less than me :-( > > We are in the process of migrating away from a very messy old Active > Directory and Exchange infrastructure, well maybe migrate is the wrong > word, > they are building a completely new Active Directory from scratch. However > they want to bring across all the Exchange 2007 mailboxes and attach them > to > completely new AD accounts, just with the same username. I am of the > opinion > that they can't do anything like this without putting a trust in between > the > old and new Active Directory domains, and they'd probably need to run the > ADMT on some level (unless everything is migrated to PSTs, which I don't > think is a good option either). They are adamant they don't want a trust > putting in as they are paranoid about the crap in their old AD which gives > them so many issues making its way into the new one, and no amount of > assurance seems to get rid of this attitude. > > The source is AD 2003 with Exchange 2007, and so is the target, so that > makes it a bit simpler, the only real difference is their entire new > infrastructure is virtualised on ESX 3.5 > > Can anyone tell me (just briefly) what would be the best way to attack > this, > bearing in mind I am not really an Exchange guy, or even point me in the > direction of some helpful links? I am going to have a dig around myself but > I thought I'd try some of the Exchange gurus first (and the football is on > soon) :-) > > TIA, > > > JRR > > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
