A few notes to mention... One is the directory and file permissions will need to be set on the new server if you are just going to copy the old files and folders. There is also a utility to run so the address books will be migrated.
Regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Schmidt Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Version and hardware move Sensitivity: Personal Hi, I didn't encounter any problems when I upgraded two servers from 8.x to 2006.x just by moving the registry and folders. Mailbox and address book formats have changed. Mailboxes are upgraded on the fly upon first use under the new version, address books have to be manually upgraded. Best Regards, Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Doyle Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 6:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Version and hardware move Sensitivity: Personal Andy If the old box is 8.22 and the new one is 2006.2, is it safe to move the registery and folders? are the formats the same? and all i have to do is run the conversion on the contact/address book? John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Schmidt Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Version and hardware move Sensitivity: Personal The user and alias information is in the registry. Mailing lists, address books and mailbox content is in the \Imail\[domain name]\ folder on your server. I would start by updating the DNS MX record(s) to a very low refresh ahead of time. You export the appropriate Registry section for that domain. See if the $virtual... is available on the new server, if not, adjust it by using Notepad in the exported file. Stop the old Imail server (to prevent more mail from piling up). Copy the domain folders from the old to the new server's disk. Import the registry section to the new server. Use the Imail Admin to confirm that you can see the domain and users on the new server. Try logging into webmail to confirm that you can see the mailbox content. Switch the MX record to the new server. Update the TTL to a normal value. Delete (or rename the registry section of) the domain on the OLD server and then start the old Imail again. Confirm on the old Imail that the domain no longer shows. Run the contact/address book conversion tool on the new server. Obviously, it's easier if you do an entire server with all domains (because then you don't have to worry about cleaning up each domain on the old server, you simply don't restart it) - but the other steps are essentially the same. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Doyle Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Version and hardware move Sensitivity: Personal Sorry guys, It was a long weekend and I meant this for the Ipswitch forum. John Morning all I spent the weekend firing up a new W 2003 server and installing Imail 2006.21 on it. I think I've delt with most of the installation issues. I would like to move clients over a domain at a time w/o doing using the technique of upgrading the old 8.22 machine and copying over the registery and Imail folder, as I want to go slow on this process. I've looked in the archives and I havent been able to find a "best practices" approach. With more history now, does anyone feel there is a best approach to moving a domain with all the clients? And if so what would the steps be. Thanks in advance John --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
