RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
Found it. This is from MsExchangeTeam... Both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 mailboxes can be moved (in either direction) with the Exchange 2007 tools. Exchange 2003 move mailbox cannot be used to move mailboxes to or from Exchange 2007 mailbox server. From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
Was this a greenfields installation of Exchange 2007? If so, it isn't supported to make that move. For lots of reasons. If they had Exchange 2000/2003 before, and upgraded, and just removed the Exchange 2003 server, off the top of my head, I think that should work. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
Not quite the same thing as what you want to do :) From: Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Found it. This is from MsExchangeTeam… “Both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 mailboxes can be moved (in either direction) with the Exchange 2007 tools. Exchange 2003 move mailbox cannot be used to move mailboxes to or from Exchange 2007 mailbox server.” From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don’t ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
How can I tell if it's Greenfield? If it is use ExMerge to move them out of e2k7 and into e2k3? -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 You cant install E2003 into a greenfield E2007 org. If it was a 2003 org in the past, then you should be able to add a new e2003 server. From: Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
If you are using a Greenfield install of 2007, time to look at export-mailbox. -troy From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
Really? 'splain please. Ah are you saying that will move the mailboxes but it will still be an Exchange 2007 environment? This is going to be ugly I can tell. -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Not quite the same thing as what you want to do :) From: Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Found it. This is from MsExchangeTeam... Both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 mailboxes can be moved (in either direction) with the Exchange 2007 tools. Exchange 2003 move mailbox cannot be used to move mailboxes to or from Exchange 2007 mailbox server. From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
That's what I figured. Only 30 users so no big deal. ExMerge still the tool of choice in e2k7? From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 If you are using a Greenfield install of 2007, time to look at export-mailbox. -troy From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
So if you can/have a 2000/2003 environment installed, it's a brainless procedure from EMC or EMS. We have done it multiple times back and forth from 2000 - 2007. I believe the article was what you were looking to do (ie the mailbox will work fine when moved back to 2003, it isn't 'marked for death from 2007') Hope that helps troy -Original Message- From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Really? 'splain please. Ah are you saying that will move the mailboxes but it will still be an Exchange 2007 environment? This is going to be ugly I can tell. -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Not quite the same thing as what you want to do :) From: Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Found it. This is from MsExchangeTeam... Both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 mailboxes can be moved (in either direction) with the Exchange 2007 tools. Exchange 2003 move mailbox cannot be used to move mailboxes to or from Exchange 2007 mailbox server. From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
Cool. Going to give a whack in the next day or two. Thanks muchly. -Original Message- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 So if you can/have a 2000/2003 environment installed, it's a brainless procedure from EMC or EMS. We have done it multiple times back and forth from 2000 - 2007. I believe the article was what you were looking to do (ie the mailbox will work fine when moved back to 2003, it isn't 'marked for death from 2007') Hope that helps troy -Original Message- From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Really? 'splain please. Ah are you saying that will move the mailboxes but it will still be an Exchange 2007 environment? This is going to be ugly I can tell. -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Not quite the same thing as what you want to do :) From: Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Found it. This is from MsExchangeTeam... Both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 mailboxes can be moved (in either direction) with the Exchange 2007 tools. Exchange 2003 move mailbox cannot be used to move mailboxes to or from Exchange 2007 mailbox server. From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
Each version of Exchange makes modifications to active directory. Each one does it differently. Exchange 2007 uses A/D differently than Exchange 2003 did. It doesn't use some attributes that Exchange 2003 did. When Exchange 2007 was installed, it looked at A/D and determined whether it needed to update A/D, or whether it needed to start from scratch. If it started from scratch, then Exchange 2003 won't install, because: 1) it'll see that the schema versions don't match, and 2) security is wrong. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Really? 'splain please. Ah are you saying that will move the mailboxes but it will still be an Exchange 2007 environment? This is going to be ugly I can tell. -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Not quite the same thing as what you want to do :) From: Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Found it. This is from MsExchangeTeam... Both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 mailboxes can be moved (in either direction) with the Exchange 2007 tools. Exchange 2003 move mailbox cannot be used to move mailboxes to or from Exchange 2007 mailbox server. From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
I don't think exmerge will work for this one. From a 32bit machine with outlook and Exchange Management Shell on it. Something like: get-mailbox -server 2007server | export-mailbox -pstfolderlocation c:\pst You might have to mod the initial get command, but that will pst all your boxes a ton quicker than exmerge will. Definitely do a get-help export-mailbox -full to see all your switches and usage. -troy From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 That's what I figured. Only 30 users so no big deal. ExMerge still the tool of choice in e2k7? From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 If you are using a Greenfield install of 2007, time to look at export-mailbox. -troy From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
Makes sense. Thanks for that. Anyway to tell, other than asking the previous technicians whom are dangling at the end of proverbial rope. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Each version of Exchange makes modifications to active directory. Each one does it differently. Exchange 2007 uses A/D differently than Exchange 2003 did. It doesn't use some attributes that Exchange 2003 did. When Exchange 2007 was installed, it looked at A/D and determined whether it needed to update A/D, or whether it needed to start from scratch. If it started from scratch, then Exchange 2003 won't install, because: 1) it'll see that the schema versions don't match, and 2) security is wrong. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Really? 'splain please. Ah are you saying that will move the mailboxes but it will still be an Exchange 2007 environment? This is going to be ugly I can tell. -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Not quite the same thing as what you want to do :) From: Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Found it. This is from MsExchangeTeam... Both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 mailboxes can be moved (in either direction) with the Exchange 2007 tools. Exchange 2003 move mailbox cannot be used to move mailboxes to or from Exchange 2007 mailbox server. From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
Um. No. Painstakingly sent to you from my Blackberry. - Original Message - From: Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thu Feb 07 18:05:24 2008 Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don’t ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
You cant install E2003 into a greenfield E2007 org. If it was a 2003 org in the past, then you should be able to add a new e2003 server. From: Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don’t ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
I want a car that will protect me from driving it into a concrete pier at 70 MPH when I'm not wearing a seatbelt! - Ed Crowley 'Way back when this question first came up, the official answer was no. However, someone in-the-know said try it - if you try to do the install, the legacy setup will fail. I personally have never been in this situation so I don't have an environment, real or virtual, to compare. But hey, drop Win 2003 on a desktop and see if you can do the Exchange 2003 install. All that being said - Exchange 2007 is a better product in 99% of situations. What is the problem that you are actually trying to address? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Makes sense. Thanks for that. Anyway to tell, other than asking the previous technicians whom are dangling at the end of proverbial rope. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Each version of Exchange makes modifications to active directory. Each one does it differently. Exchange 2007 uses A/D differently than Exchange 2003 did. It doesn't use some attributes that Exchange 2003 did. When Exchange 2007 was installed, it looked at A/D and determined whether it needed to update A/D, or whether it needed to start from scratch. If it started from scratch, then Exchange 2003 won't install, because: 1) it'll see that the schema versions don't match, and 2) security is wrong. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Really? 'splain please. Ah are you saying that will move the mailboxes but it will still be an Exchange 2007 environment? This is going to be ugly I can tell. -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Not quite the same thing as what you want to do :) From: Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Found it. This is from MsExchangeTeam... Both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 mailboxes can be moved (in either direction) with the Exchange 2007 tools. Exchange 2003 move mailbox cannot be used to move mailboxes to or from Exchange 2007 mailbox server. From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3
Are the Exchange 2007 setup logs still available? ;) -Original Message- From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Makes sense. Thanks for that. Anyway to tell, other than asking the previous technicians whom are dangling at the end of proverbial rope. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Each version of Exchange makes modifications to active directory. Each one does it differently. Exchange 2007 uses A/D differently than Exchange 2003 did. It doesn't use some attributes that Exchange 2003 did. When Exchange 2007 was installed, it looked at A/D and determined whether it needed to update A/D, or whether it needed to start from scratch. If it started from scratch, then Exchange 2003 won't install, because: 1) it'll see that the schema versions don't match, and 2) security is wrong. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Really? 'splain please. Ah are you saying that will move the mailboxes but it will still be an Exchange 2007 environment? This is going to be ugly I can tell. -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Not quite the same thing as what you want to do :) From: Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 Found it. This is from MsExchangeTeam... Both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 mailboxes can be moved (in either direction) with the Exchange 2007 tools. Exchange 2003 move mailbox cannot be used to move mailboxes to or from Exchange 2007 mailbox server. From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving from E2k7 to E2k3 I have a client that needs to move ( don't ask) from E2k7 to E2k3. Could this be as simple as installing E2k3 in the same site as the E2k7 server and moving the mailboxes? Make my day please. Cheers. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~