RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail....
Daniel: Yes, email over a Internet based VPN, across the pond, nothing but Net... :) As I said, I protested and gave the administration quite a laundry list of why it wasn't the best way to run thing, but they are the ones who pay the money so they're the ones who get to make the decision. Andrea: Thanks. I guess I should've referenced the materials I've read (including the MSKB article you referenced), a couple of the MS migration whitepapers, and a couple of Exchange books... Unfortunately they all reference moving things within the same domain... I need to know if I can use the accounts from the child domain on the parent domain's Exch server, which I can't find a straight answer to (of course, I've probably not worded my question correctly in all the Internet searching I've done) Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. -Original Message- From: Andrea Coppini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail You might want to look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316886 for some ideas. Other than that, the MS KB is a good source of info. It's got loads of good step by step guides. -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2002 9:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail 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] _ 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] _ 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]
RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail....
Hi, Based on what you say about the informatoin store size, if I can presume that you are going to migrate a few users (That depends on you as to what you classify as few); did you consider the option of making pst files of all users, make your exchange server resolve both the domain names.. or be the MX record holder for both the domains and you manually create each user... and then import the pst files into your exchange server. for them to be able to check there mails from U.K change the client settings on each client. What says you to this ... -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:08 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail Daniel: Yes, email over a Internet based VPN, across the pond, nothing but Net... :) As I said, I protested and gave the administration quite a laundry list of why it wasn't the best way to run thing, but they are the ones who pay the money so they're the ones who get to make the decision. Andrea: Thanks. I guess I should've referenced the materials I've read (including the MSKB article you referenced), a couple of the MS migration whitepapers, and a couple of Exchange books... Unfortunately they all reference moving things within the same domain... I need to know if I can use the accounts from the child domain on the parent domain's Exch server, which I can't find a straight answer to (of course, I've probably not worded my question correctly in all the Internet searching I've done) Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. -Original Message- From: Andrea Coppini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail You might want to look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316886 for some ideas. Other than that, the MS KB is a good source of info. It's got loads of good step by step guides. -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2002 9:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail 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] _ 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] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto
RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail....
Do you mean move the domain accounts, or the mail accounts? If the latter, setup a trust from the US to the UK. Use Exmerge to extract the UK users' data and import it into the US server. There's not going to be an automated way to do this, sorry. Add to your laundry list administrative headache and charge them some overtime (but you're probably exempt). -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail Daniel: Yes, email over a Internet based VPN, across the pond, nothing but Net... :) As I said, I protested and gave the administration quite a laundry list of why it wasn't the best way to run thing, but they are the ones who pay the money so they're the ones who get to make the decision. Andrea: Thanks. I guess I should've referenced the materials I've read (including the MSKB article you referenced), a couple of the MS migration whitepapers, and a couple of Exchange books... Unfortunately they all reference moving things within the same domain... I need to know if I can use the accounts from the child domain on the parent domain's Exch server, which I can't find a straight answer to (of course, I've probably not worded my question correctly in all the Internet searching I've done) Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. -Original Message- From: Andrea Coppini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail You might want to look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316886 for some ideas. Other than that, the MS KB is a good source of info. It's got loads of good step by step guides. -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2002 9:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail 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] _ 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] _ 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] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives
RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail....
You're right, I'm overtime exempt... :( I understand there's not going to be a manual way to do it, but I've used Exmerge in the past, and have gotten along quite well with it, so I believe I'll be fine... It's only about 40 mailboxes... As I said in my original email, I'm hopping to create the mailboxes and associate them to domain accounts in a child domain (made from the UK's old NT4 domain joining our forest as a child)... Still hoping someone can tell me if this can be done? Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. -Original Message- From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:57 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail Do you mean move the domain accounts, or the mail accounts? If the latter, setup a trust from the US to the UK. Use Exmerge to extract the UK users' data and import it into the US server. There's not going to be an automated way to do this, sorry. Add to your laundry list administrative headache and charge them some overtime (but you're probably exempt). -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail Daniel: Yes, email over a Internet based VPN, across the pond, nothing but Net... :) As I said, I protested and gave the administration quite a laundry list of why it wasn't the best way to run thing, but they are the ones who pay the money so they're the ones who get to make the decision. Andrea: Thanks. I guess I should've referenced the materials I've read (including the MSKB article you referenced), a couple of the MS migration whitepapers, and a couple of Exchange books... Unfortunately they all reference moving things within the same domain... I need to know if I can use the accounts from the child domain on the parent domain's Exch server, which I can't find a straight answer to (of course, I've probably not worded my question correctly in all the Internet searching I've done) Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. -Original Message- From: Andrea Coppini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail You might want to look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316886 for some ideas. Other than that, the MS KB is a good source of info. It's got loads of good step by step guides. -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2002 9:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail 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
Re: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail....
Get header.exe from the Exchange RK and use it to create a header file including all the information you want to import including the domain account. Export the user list from the UK box, munge the account field with an appropriate tool (Excel) and import it into your server. - Original Message - From: Joe Pochedley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:57 AM Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail You're right, I'm overtime exempt... :( I understand there's not going to be a manual way to do it, but I've used Exmerge in the past, and have gotten along quite well with it, so I believe I'll be fine... It's only about 40 mailboxes... As I said in my original email, I'm hopping to create the mailboxes and associate them to domain accounts in a child domain (made from the UK's old NT4 domain joining our forest as a child)... Still hoping someone can tell me if this can be done? Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. -Original Message- From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:57 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail Do you mean move the domain accounts, or the mail accounts? If the latter, setup a trust from the US to the UK. Use Exmerge to extract the UK users' data and import it into the US server. There's not going to be an automated way to do this, sorry. Add to your laundry list administrative headache and charge them some overtime (but you're probably exempt). -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail Daniel: Yes, email over a Internet based VPN, across the pond, nothing but Net... :) As I said, I protested and gave the administration quite a laundry list of why it wasn't the best way to run thing, but they are the ones who pay the money so they're the ones who get to make the decision. Andrea: Thanks. I guess I should've referenced the materials I've read (including the MSKB article you referenced), a couple of the MS migration whitepapers, and a couple of Exchange books... Unfortunately they all reference moving things within the same domain... I need to know if I can use the accounts from the child domain on the parent domain's Exch server, which I can't find a straight answer to (of course, I've probably not worded my question correctly in all the Internet searching I've done) Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. -Original Message- From: Andrea Coppini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail You might want to look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316886 for some ideas. Other than that, the MS KB is a good source of info. It's got loads of good step by step guides. -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2002 9:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail 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
Re: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail....
I thought header.exe was only on the 5.5 Resource Kit? - Original Message - From: Daniel Chenault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:14 AM Subject: Re: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail Get header.exe from the Exchange RK and use it to create a header file including all the information you want to import including the domain account. Export the user list from the UK box, munge the account field with an appropriate tool (Excel) and import it into your server. - Original Message - From: Joe Pochedley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:57 AM Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail You're right, I'm overtime exempt... :( I understand there's not going to be a manual way to do it, but I've used Exmerge in the past, and have gotten along quite well with it, so I believe I'll be fine... It's only about 40 mailboxes... As I said in my original email, I'm hopping to create the mailboxes and associate them to domain accounts in a child domain (made from the UK's old NT4 domain joining our forest as a child)... Still hoping someone can tell me if this can be done? Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. -Original Message- From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:57 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail Do you mean move the domain accounts, or the mail accounts? If the latter, setup a trust from the US to the UK. Use Exmerge to extract the UK users' data and import it into the US server. There's not going to be an automated way to do this, sorry. Add to your laundry list administrative headache and charge them some overtime (but you're probably exempt). -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail Daniel: Yes, email over a Internet based VPN, across the pond, nothing but Net... :) As I said, I protested and gave the administration quite a laundry list of why it wasn't the best way to run thing, but they are the ones who pay the money so they're the ones who get to make the decision. Andrea: Thanks. I guess I should've referenced the materials I've read (including the MSKB article you referenced), a couple of the MS migration whitepapers, and a couple of Exchange books... Unfortunately they all reference moving things within the same domain... I need to know if I can use the accounts from the child domain on the parent domain's Exch server, which I can't find a straight answer to (of course, I've probably not worded my question correctly in all the Internet searching I've done) Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. -Original Message- From: Andrea Coppini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail You might want to look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316886 for some ideas. Other than that, the MS KB is a good source of info. It's got loads of good step by step guides. -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2002 9:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail 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
Re: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail....
You mean the UK users will have to access their mail over a link across the pond? Oy... Exmerge the whole mess out, give the PSTs to the users. Create the accounts in your server and be done with it. - Original Message - From: Joe Pochedley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:47 PM Subject: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail 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] _ 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]
RE: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail....
You might want to look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316886 for some ideas. Other than that, the MS KB is a good source of info. It's got loads of good step by step guides. -Original Message- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2002 9:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail 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] _ 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]
