Hello, Sounds similar to a problem another department on our Campus had. Maybe there's a Q article on it by now. If not, you're going to want to call PSS. Here's what the Admin of the other department had to say:
===================== From: Ackerman, Greg What he needs to do is break the ADC connection - stop the service. Then go into AD and remove all the email attributes from all the users (since he hasn't gone to 2003 yet). Then go into Exchange 5.5 in raw mode and remove the ADC Global Names attribute from all the users. If there are tons of users he can do this be a directory export/import. Once the AD is clean and the 5.5 dir clean he can then go back to the ADC Tools wizard and reconnect the systems. Be sure the select the option in the ADC CA's to not delete automatically before reconnecting. This will prevent the deleted mailbox scenario he just went through. ======================= Brent -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Badger Posted At: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 7:47 AM Posted To: MS Exchange List Conversation: 5.5 to 2K3 Migration Problem Subject: 5.5 to 2K3 Migration Problem About a month ago we had a failed migration attempt from Exchange 5.5 to 2003. All went well, but the public folders wouldn't replicate at all so we had to roll back. We removed the 2003 server from the site and performed the necessary steps to clean out AD, rebuilt the 5.5 server (restored from a backup prior to the migration attempt) and all seemed well. We are in the process of preparing for a second attempt (having resolved the Public Folder issue) but have encountered a serious problem - once the Active Directory Connections are created, all of the mailboxes on the 5.5 server that existed at the time of the first migration attempt are immediately deleted - 95% of our mailboxes!Any mailboxes created after the "cleanup" are fine. Using ADSIEdit to compare the objects of an "old" user and a "new" user reveal that the new users have a valid value for their legacyExchangeDN property, the old users have their legacyExchangeDN value set to ADCDisabledMailByADC. Is this why the mailboxes are being deleted? How do I get this resolved? Any help would be greatly appreciated Joe Badger Northwest Evaluation Association _________________________________________________________________ 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.
