You mean the distinguished name? That is of course, unique to the mailbox. I havent seen Exmerge break existing meeting requests when moving a mailbox between sites. Some of the things we experience however are loss of permissions on delegated folders, screwed up PDLs/DLs and sometimes loss of Outlook rules. It certainly has some drawbacks, but Im not sure if recreating the new mailbox beforehand is going to do much good in that regard. SMTP addresses have to be unique throughout the org, so even if you create the new mbx beforehand , it cant receive new mail for that address until you have removed the original SMTP address from the first mbx, wait for replication, and then re-add it the new. But, to answer the original question, scripting the creation of the new mbxs is probably the easiest way to go for a large number <g>
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hutchings Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 7:35 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: 5.5, Moving Mailbox to a different site? Thanks Andy, it was more the "best" way to create the mailbox on the other server before doing the import. I did a little googling and found various references to csv's and suchlike, and adding an X500 address to the new mailbox so that existing meeting requests and suchlike would still reference the newly created mailbox? > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 12:10 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: 5.5, Moving Mailbox to a different site? > > > Exmerge is probably the best way to go regardless! > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Paul Hutchings > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 6:19 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: 5.5, Moving Mailbox to a different site? > > I need to move a mailbox to a server in a different site (both are 5.5 > sp4). > > > I know at a basic level I can use Exmerge to export the existing > mailbox, delete it, recreate on the new server, then exmerge to > import. > > I've been digging around on google and it seems there are smarter ways > to retain mailbox attributes by doing a directory export/import but > I'm not too clear on whether there's any benefit just for the one > mailbox, i.e is it just a time thing where it's a lot easier if you're > migrating 500 mailboxes? > > cheers, > Paul > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% 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 send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% 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 send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% 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 send a blank email to [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.
