You mean the UK users will have to access their mail over a link across the pond? Oy...
Exmerge the whole mess out, give the PSTs to the users. Create the accounts in your server and be done with it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Pochedley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:47 PM Subject: Purchased another company, need to migrate their mail.... > Kind ladies and gentlemen, looking for a little feedback on an Exchange mess > that I've been tasked with handling. > > We're located in the USA and recently we purchased a company based out of > the UK. The administration has asked me to consolidate the Exchange servers > (one at each company) into a single server. Of course I protested > veheminently about having a single server for both the US and UK, gave them > many many reasons why it shouldn't be done, but ultimately the decision was > theirs.... AH well.... > > We're currently running Exch5.5 on an NT4 domain, and the purchased company > is running the same... I am in the process of testing and preparing to > deploy Win2K and AD here in the USA... After AD's in place I plan to > upgrade our Exch5.5 to Exch2K. > > Now for the messy part... I need to get the UK's mailboxes moved to our > Exch2K server... What I was planning was this: Upgrade their network to > Win2K as a child domain of ours... Then using Exmerge, pull out their > mailboxes and transfer them to our Exchange server (they've only got a 600mb > priv.edb, so it's nothing compared to our 90Gb database)... I've read on > migration strategies, etc, but nothing really covers moving mail from one > domain to another or if making them a child domain (basically creating a two > way transitive trust between the two domains) gets around the problem... > > So the questions are these: Can I make new mailboxes on the USA Exch2K > server from users in the child domain in the UK (I assume the answer is yes, > but I haven't gotten that far in testing yet and I'm just trying to avoid > some head banging if someone can tell me it can't be done)? Is there an > easier way to accomplish this? How can I move the Public folders to our > Exch server? > > Thanks in advance for your kind wisdom. > > Joe Pochedley > If you have time to do it twice, > you had time to do it right in > the first place. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
