RE: Exchange newbie

[Garland Mac Neill]

Title: Exchange newbie

Woohh.....   Are you moving mailboxes to a new server? Or upgrading an existing server?   -----Original Message----- From: John R. Clark III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange newbie   I am trying to upgrade an NT4.0 Exchange 5.5 sp6 server that is in use full time to a Windows 2000 Exchange 2000 machine. The exchange 5.5 server has been used for some 5 years with no problems. The old server was misconfigured to with a different netbios name from mx record, with aliases in the user mailboxes. I ran the exchange server migration wizard and migrated the messages to the new mailboxes without errors or warnings. What I have and would like to know... oldserver ---- netbios = some_name dns = another_name.subnet.domain.edu mx = mail.subnet.domain.edu newserver ---- netbios = newname dns = newname.subnet.domain.edu   I would like to move the mx record and start getting the mail delievered to the new server...am I going to have problems? Is there a way to syncronize the 2 servers so that mail is delievered between to 2 servers to the old and new mailboxes? I am afraid that I might miss some messages durring the mx record changeover and will need to syncronize them. I am also worried about the mailbox rules people have defined. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm