I heard about Ad problem doing this. Something about making sure you have two setup going both ways not 100% sure. You might want to check the archives/FAQ on this site. Also slipstick.com may have something.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Varghese, Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:06 PM Subject: I think I'm fooked.. > We are trying to figure out a way to migrate our Exchange 5.5 cluster server > to an Exchange 2000 cluster server. Our environment is mostly Win2k but the > domain isn't native. It looks like no matter what method we use, we will > loose a lot of ACLs and delegations. Also public folders will have to be > redone. > > Is there any sure fire method (without using the AD connector because I've > seen some nightmare incidents with this thing) of migrating/upgrading the > Exchange environment? > > We thought about doing an in place upgrade, but our consultant said that it > only works if we are in native mode, otherwise we will still loose a lot of > the ACLs and delegations. Another method we are looking at is, using xmerg > to import the 5.5 database to Exchange 2000. This method is almost like > starting from scratch, we loose all the settings and will have to be > recreated. > > How would a new Exchange 2000 server joined to the existing site work in > this situation? Will I have the same issues? How should we handle public > folders? > > Please let me know if anyone has been able to migrate to Exchange 2000 > without literally having to rebuild everything from scratch. > > Maybe I'm being too nervous and everything will work out great, but I am > dealing with Microsoft products.........I don't think I can read anymore > white papers or Q articles before I go blind. The more I read, the more > nervous I get. > > > Wilson Varghese > NT Systems Manager > KMV, LLC > Office: (415)229-0726 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
