Thanks for all of the comments and links. I had not come across the part about re-homing the mailboxes. This I would not like to do for 1700 mailboxes. The mailstore reorg of mailboxes is already being planned as I want to get the stores down to about 100 GB each.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Ellis, John P. <johnel...@wirral.gov.uk>wrote: > We went through this last year. We built some new Ex2k3 servers and then > used the ESM to move the mailboxes over night. > This gave us fresh information stores, no white space and helped reduce > mailbox sizes, because the recoverable deleted items dont get moved across > > We had around 4500 mailboxes and had very few issues scheduling them out of > hours with much interuption to users. > > HTH > John > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 20 April 2011 14:43 > > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Moving Mailstores in Exchange 2003 > > I am in the process of building a new Exchange 2003 EE box (don't ask). It > will replace our current Exchange 2003 box as we have had problems with the > box. I have read that it possible to move a mailstore from one Exchange > server to another Exchange server instead of doing individual mailbox moves. > Has any one done this or any suggest as to what to watch out for. > This would save a lot of time as I would be moving about 1700 mailboxes in > total from 4 storage groups. > > -- > T. Todd Lemmiksoo > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist > > ********************************************************************** > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > > the system manager. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by > > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > > www.clearswift.com > > ********************************************************************** > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist > -- T. Todd Lemmiksoo --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
