Then have the people who said to it this way, figure it out. You did it in a way that most here would not do it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Soren Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:18 PM 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]
