I highly recommend getting yourself a 3 letter Exchange consultant when it comes time to dismantling the Exchange 2003 bits. There are some final cleanup steps that are, IMHO, not well documented and it's very good to have an expert engaged ahead of time to help you. I can recommend one of those 3 letter experts if you like. :)
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in the middle of upgrading our Exchange 2003 infrastructure, and > am getting ready to deal with the PFs. > > I'm lacking a bit of info, and if anyone can help I'd appreciate it. > > I have two overseas sites (UK and AU) that have metered connections. > For the UK office, I can't do anything about it, because we'll be > moving everything Exchange-related from there to the US office. > However, the PFs in the UK office are already replicated to the US > 2003 server, so I believe that I should just be able to add replicas > from the US 2003 server to the US 2010 server, then once the mailboxes > in the UK office are moved to the US office I can remove the replicas > from the UK server, and all should be good. > > But, the other office (AU) will have an Exchange 2010 server, and they > also have a lot of PFs. > > I'm looking at the strategy below to minimize impact on their WAN > traffic, and if anyone can validate it, I'd appreciate it. The current > set of PFs for the AU office are replicated to the US 2003 server. > > o- Add replicas of the AU current PFs to the new AU server > o- Add replicas of all of the US 2003 PFs to the US 2010 server > o- Add replicas of the AU 2010 PFs to the US 2010 server > o- Remove replicas from the AU and US 2003 servers > > I believe that this will minimize WAN traffic - if done in this order. > > If true, that's good, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to stage > this process. The articles on PF replication and moving all so far > seem to assume either high-speed links between all sites, or a single > site. > > Any thoughts on this? > > Kurt > > >
