Hello, I wish I had encountered problems in my 500 hours+ of Labbing our 5.5 -> 2K inplace upgrade. We didn't encounter problems until we did it in production. Simple Single Domain, Single Exchange server, had the domain Native before doing Exchange, ... what could go wrong! :-)
I encountered the unassociated mailboxes too. And we did a lot to clean up our Domain before the migration. In addition our DL restrictions no longer worked ... and other strange things. Surprisingly, most of these problems have gone away over the years after various Service Packs ... MS PSS seemed to put some effort in trying to help us debug things, but they were never successful, and even after a Service Pack was released that fixed things they still billed us: "Well, we could never duplicate the problem in our lab, so it must have been something you did ..." But a Service Pack fixed the problem? That was a great summer I could've spent Mtn. biking and Sailing instead of "labbing" for naught. Still bitter memories. Have better memories and bring in a new Exchange Server, E2k, and do a move mailbox to get the users onto it. I had good luck with Inplace Upgrades from Beta versions of Exchange thru 5.5 . But Not 5.5 to E2K. Quite frankly I'd recommend a "Green field" migration for your Domain too. It would've saved me a lot of time in the long run. We've been running MS products for a long time, and all I can guess at this point is some "junk" that came along thru all the upgrades over the years finally bit us. Good Luck, Brent -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scoles, Damian Posted At: Thursday, March 18, 2004 8:33 AM Posted To: MS Exchange List Conversation: Test Lab Problem - 5.5 to 2000 Subject: Test Lab Problem - 5.5 to 2000 I am testing out a migration for a customer who wants to go from NT 4.0 and Exchange 5.5 to Windows 2003 and Exchange 2000/3. We had already migrated the domain with no issues and are now working on the Exchange migration. Here is the setup: Pre AD: 1 PDC NT 4.0 SP6a 1 BDC NT 4.0 SP6a 1 Exchange 5.5 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP3 AD 2 DC Windows 2003 1 Exchange 5.5 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP3 Client PC Windows 2000 Professional Outlook 2002 Windows Server 2003 Outlook 2002 When then proceeded to upgrade Exchange 2000 using the in place method. So we ran DCDIAG and there were no issues. We then installed the ADC. We ran forestprep and domainprep from the Exchange 2000 CD on the Exchange server (it would not allow us to run it on the Windows 2003 DCs). We then installed NNTP which is required for Exchange 2000. Then we did the upgrade. All of this proceeded smoothly. After the upgrade was complete we tried to open up Outlook with an exisitng profile. This errored out, so we checked Exchange System Manager and noticed all of the email boxes had red X's by them. I right clicked on the accounts and had to 'Reconnect' the mailbox with a user account. This worked for all but one. The user name for that account did not show up in the list, even though you can see the name in the AD Users and Computers. We then tried to open 2 mailboxes and noticed a few other things: Distribution lists were missing as well as custom recipients. Meeting requests did not show up in the calendars until after they were opened. The biggest thing was the one mailbox I could not reconnect with a user name had no mail in the inbox. System Manager said it had 17 items total, but I could not see them in Outlook. Is there anything obvious I missed? Something tells me it has something to do with the ADC, but I am not sure where to begin. Thanks. Damian Scoles Senior Technical Analyst MCSE, CCNP, CNA, A+ _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
