Would love to. Not going to happen, however, given the recent happenings at our company that I've mentioned elsewhere.
I do plan on studying it very carefully, and then asking lots of questions here, and probably also on Technet fora. Kurt On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >
