I'd suggest adding the X500 rather than changing the legacyExchangeDN. Its probably in that format for a reason.
------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:afyodorov@;innerhost.com] > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:17 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Validation of migration concept > > > Which one is better? > making x500 addresses or changing the LegacyExchangeDN field > to look like the DN from Exchange 5.5 ? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Webb, Andy [mailto:Andy.Webb@;swinc.com] > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 5:34 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Validation of migration concept > > > Slight revision - Add an x500 (case is significant) proxy address to > each user that matches their distinguished name from the old > 5.5 server. > For example: > x500:/o=Vang/ou=ExchangeSite/cn=Recipients/cn=<user> > > It ought to match the legacyExchangeDN value, but it is possible since > you created a new environment that it won't. Don't try and make it > match in that case. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Julian Stone [mailto:julian.stone@;netstore.net] > Posted At: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:28 AM > Posted To: Microsoft Exchange > Conversation: Validation of migration concept > Subject: RE: Validation of migration concept > > > In reverse order: > > 2. Add an X500 address to each user that points to the old 5.5 server. > > 1. After the above is applied, some of the problems may be resolved, > other than that ensure that name resolution at each client is working > correctly, if not add a 'hosts' entry. > > Yours, > > Julian Stone > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Soren Larsen [mailto:SwynkExchangeDiscussionList@;vang.org] > Sent: 17 October 2002 20:19 pm > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Validation of migration concept > > > Hello > > Having just been through an Exchange 5.5 -> 2000 migration, I need to > ask a few questions. > > It was chosen to create an new Exchange 2000 organization and > not reuse > the old Exchange 5.5. I don't know the reasons for this > design decision > - I just had to do the task. > > The way I did it was to install the Exchange 2000 organization (1 > server, 1 site), configure all the required options, mail enable the > users, and finally migrate the user mailboxes from Exchange 5.5 to > Exchange 2000 with the Migration Wizard. > > Migration of the 15 GB mailboxes went smooth with the exception that > Migration Wizard forgot some items in about 10 mailboxes. > > Now when the new Exchange system has gone into production we are > experiencing some very strange and pretty serious problems > productivity > wise. > > 1. Users are experiencing problems in their Outlook 98 mail > client (yes, > I know, not exactly latest technology). Everything from > Outlook hanging > for minutes, to Outlook freezing totally. Lots of errors like "Object > not found" is given when opening items and using functionality in the > Outlook 98 client. All users had new MAPI profiles created > and the forms > cache emptied. Anybody on the list has suggestions to what I can do to > debug further on the problem? > > 2. Users can't reply to old messages migrated from the old > 5.5 server. I > was told that Exchange 2000 would recalculate the old Distinguished > Names in the mail messages, but this has not happened, as the > users are > replying to the old addresses from the 5.5 organization. Can I do > anything to solve this issue? > > Are there any known issues in running Outlook 98 against an Exchange > 2000 server that could cause my problem? > > Thanks in advance. > > Soren > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com > 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com > 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com > 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com > 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
