Need to know a little bit more about your intended Exchange configuration.
If this is not yet defined, here is how I would suggest doing this. First, install your Windows 2000 server into a new domain and install AD. Next, establish a trust relationship to your old domain. Then, install Exchange 2000 in the new domain and add it to the existing Exchange 5.5 site. Exchange sites can span NT domains. Then, use the ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) to migrate User Accounts and retain SID history. You can then use an ADC (Active Directory Connector) RCA (Recipient Connection Agreement) to replicate mailbox attributes and associate the new account created using ADMT with the existing Exchange 5.5 mailboxes. Now, you can simply move the mailboxes from the Exchange 5.5 server to the Exchange 2000 server. There is a pretty decent document out there: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q316886&; that should provide you with the details that you need to execute this process. This is probably the safest method of performing the migration that you are asking about although there may be some other options. To be perfectly honest, you really need to get this installed, configured and tested before committing to a time table for all of your migrations. Doing these things should not affect your production environment and you could set this up and test it on a few accounts before committing to massive numbers of migrations. > Hello, > > This weekend, we have to accomplish a pretty serious task - upgrading a = > Exchange 5.5 Server on one Domain, and somehow convert/migrate it to = > Exchange 2000 on another domain. > > What would be the best way to attack this problem? Create a Trust = > Relationship so the 2 domains can talk to each other first? -or- = > Temporarily have the 5.5 Server (or vice versa) join the other Domain = > temporarily? I think that may break the server however - because the = > Admin Authentication would get screwed up as the service starts using = > the Domain Administrator login account right? I need a bulletproof way = > to accomplish this task, as there is no room for screw ups right now. > > One thing in our favor, is that we are not upgrading the server itself - = > so the original data files will always be intact - with no chance of = > corruption. But still my Monday, we have to have all the users moved = > over to the new domain, and working off of Exchange 2000. > > If the experts on the list could jump in briefly, and offer some really = > good advice on this topic, I would greatly be in your debt. Thank you = > in advance for any help you can offer to me. > > Mike - _________________________________________________________________ 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]
