Thanks all for responses A summary :-
After a number of irritating chats with MS...it appears the two "official" answers are :- A) Upgrade to SBS2000 which requires a move to a new machine and then upgrade the old machine to win2000 and cross your fingers that the legacy apps will still work. This however would only work in the short term as SBS 2000 still has many of the same limitations as SBS 4.5 B) 1) Upgrade to Back Office (requires purchase of SBS -> BO upgrade licence) 2) Install Exchange on new machine (now no site connector / replication restrictions but requires additional Exchange 5.5 license) 3) Use the Move Server Wizard 4) Remove first server However, I have discovered a couple of people who have had nightmares with this procedure (in the actual upgrade of SBS Exchange to Back Office exchange portion) and one MVP flat out recommended avoiding this solution like the plague, so exmerge is chugging along :-( 75 mailboxes 11gb....... hohum..... > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Rowlands [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 31 July 2002 21:03 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Fwd: Re: Moving Exchange from Small Business Server > > > We have outgrown our Small Business Server (4.5 with Exchange 5.5) and > want/need to move exchange off to a newer faster box. The SBS version > of exchange however seems substantially crippled, no site connector or > directory connector. This, I believe, means that there is no posssibility > to install another Exchange Server into the site and use the move server > wizard and then remove the old machine. Shifting all the other apps ot the > sbs machine is not an option right now...... There are way too many > legacy apps (in some cases the "guru" who installed em and knew how they > worked is looong gone). > > From what I have read there is no "easy / automated method" of moving > exchange to a new box with a different name or is there? > > It seems that exporting all mailboxes and reimporting the data is my > only option... please say it aint so joe :-) > > ------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ 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]
