Phil,
In my view the removal of the connectors is more to prevent directory
replication issues. Admittedly, in my cases I was moving single servers to
other sites so when the servers went away so did, for all intents and
purposes, did the site.
Nate
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> From: Phil Isika
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> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 14:33
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Move Server questions
>
> I'm also doing my first Move Server Wizard operation next weekend
> (single server site to multiserver site). After the server move we will
> do a mailbox move of the 40 mailboxes.
>
> I've read in Microsoft's MSW documentation that you need to keep Site
> Connectors & DR Connectors in place. Nate, what is the reason for
> removing the connectors before the move? I assume, so you don't have a
> phantom site in your organization.
>
> My manager doesn't want users to go through the process of clicking
> "Check Name" (I said it's only 40 users). Is there a way to change the
> registry on each client so the server/mailbox are automatically resolved
> on Monday morning?
>
> Phil Isika
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Couch, Nate
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 6:39 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Move Server questions
>
>
> In fact, the server name is NOT changed. The SITE name is changed
> though as the databases are modified to reflect the new SITE location.
> I have done a couple of these moves using the Move Server Wizard (same
> domain in one case and different domains in the other). If you've read
> the Move Server Wizard documentation and follow it's instructions you
> should have no problem. The key point, as I see it, is to disconnect
> the site/server (Site/X.400 and DR Connectors)you are moving from the
> rest of the ORG. As long as the two sites could communicate before the
> move you should be good to go.
>
> You are correct about the Outlook/Exchange client side. Each client has
> a profile pointing to the original Site/Server address. The only thing
> I had to do here was make sure the users knew to do the "Check Name"
> routine after the move and replication had occurred. I did encounter one
> other problem where users had added Public Folder shortcuts to their
> Outlook Bar and after the move they had to have their permissions
> re-established, but that was relatively easy to fix.
>
> Nate Couch
> EDS Messaging
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hunter, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 4:21 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Move Server questions
>
>
> I thought Ed already replied? I've been on the desktop side of the
> house for one server move, 5 years ago, and we are still on the same
> (annoying) cluster so I haven't done this on the LAN side at all. We
> did NOT have to recreate any profiles except for one bozo who tried to
> dial up 2 years later and lo and behold the server was gone by then.
>
> Are you following Ed's Method?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bueffel, Scott M - CNF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 4:09 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Move Server questions
>
>
> What, not a single person on this list has used the Move Server wizard?
> Is Ed on vacation this week? I haven't seen any posts from him; he
> usually responds to my inquiries. Lori, Daniel, Missy, Martin, Bueller,
> Bueller, Bueller?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bueffel, Scott M - CNF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:40 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Move Server questions
>
>
> I will performing my first Move Server Wizard (multi-server site to
> multi-server site)in the next month or so and I have a couple questions.
> I was reading some TechNet docs and one of them specifically talks about
> moving from site to site. The author says that the client won't have to
> recreate their profile because the server name isn't changing. But in
> my lab tests this was not the case; Outlook was unable to connect and
> gave some warning about the mailbox being unavailable. I redid the
> Check Name in the profile and then it was fine, but it still required
> manual intervention. I read in another doc somewhere that you WOULD
> have to recreate the profile. Does anyone know for sure?
>
> Also, the same TechNet article recommends removing the Site and DR
> connectors. I don't want to do that because then I would lose all of my
> inter-site members in each DL, not to mention lots of NDRs, etc. But I
> read another article that said to leave the connectors intact (but
> obviously not hosted on the server being moved). My lab tests worked
> fine with the connectors left in place. Why would he be recommending to
> do that in the first place?
>
> Comments, complaints, suggestions?
>
> Scott.
>
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