I would actually try to recover the 5.5 server as it was from those EDB files. If you successfully get it up, then you can actually migrate the users by following usual migration paths described in detail in Technet etc.
What you want to do will really give you a lot of trouble. You are planning to do an offline restore of a 5.5 database (that is in questionable state) on an Exchange 2000 server. It is asking for trouble. Plus, you really are better off starting with a clean Exchange 2000 server and salvaging whatever you can from your 5.5 environment as opposed to upgrading a troublesome database. Serdar Soysal -----Original Message----- From: brenda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:49 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: migrating to exchange 2000 from offline edb exchange 5.5 files dear friends. as I told you in my last email, our exchange 5.5 server died. the HD was bad, backup was sh*t, and I got into troubles. I recovered some ost files with the tips I got here, and in email from members of this list, and I am feeling that I must thank all of you for that so - thanks allot!!. now what I want to do is: I have the old HD with ALL the EDB files (I hope they were not on bad sectors). we planned anyway to move to exchange 2000 since we are using windows 2000 domain AD. (the exchange 5.5 box was on an old NT4 SP60a PDC). now. I copied the EDB files to a stand alone win2k box, and I would like to make this box an exchange 2000 server. and to use the old mail boxes and dir info etc that I have in the old exchange 5.5 EDB files. where do I go from now? what can and should be done? where do i start? please help thanks again for everything Brenda _________________________________________________________________ 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]
