Could you try using a forest trust and set the "Associated External Account" permission pointing from domain2\username to domain1\mailbox?
That would essentially give two users rights to the mailbox, then use the move tool and come back in and remove domain1\user from the permissions? I don't know what that would do the "Self" user though. Maybe someone else has a more elegant solution. Bob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 12:13 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Mailbox move idea. Domain consolidation. Two domains, same forest, separate trees not a parent/child. Exch. 2003/W2K3. Domain1 contains all the email boxes and accounts just those email boxes. That domain is going away. Domain2 now has an exchange server that is a member of that site. Unfortunately, my predecessors gave users accounts in both domains. About 800 of them. So, domain1\John Doe has a mailbox in domain1. Same person has domain2\John Doe for fileservers and the like, but no mailbox. I need to eliminate one account and end up with the mailbox being moved to domain2. Domain2\John Doe has a boatload of complicated groups and permissions in domain2. So deleting the domain2 account would require days of redoing folder/group permissions. So I am thinking about exmerging the mailboxes out, deleting the mailbox and the associated account. Then create mailboxes in domain2, they would have the same name as far as a pst is concerned....then Exmerge the saved email back in? Thoughts, ideas or alternate suggestions welcome. I have room for plenty of downtime for these users since they are teachers and will be gone for 2 months. JK _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ 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. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ 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.
