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Andrew
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:05 pm    Post subject: Exchange between forests Reply with quote
Hello all,

We run win2k and exch2k with a single forest and AD domain. We may be
wanting to create a new forest (due to the org wanting the name changed), if
we make a new forest and migrate the user etc into it, what do we do with
exchange? Can we leave it and migrate mailboxes between forests to a new
exchange server?

Should we upgrade our AD to win2k3 and use the renaming tool to change the
domain name and upgrade exchange to 2k3 instead of migrating?

Any help, as always much appreciated

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Mark Arnold [MVP]
Guest
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:40 pm    Post subject: Re: Exchange between forests Reply with quote
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:05:07 -0800, Andrew
<Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Quote:
Hello all,

We run win2k and exch2k with a single forest and AD domain. We may be
wanting to create a new forest (due to the org wanting the name changed), if
we make a new forest and migrate the user etc into it, what do we do with
exchange? Can we leave it and migrate mailboxes between forests to a new
exchange server?

Should we upgrade our AD to win2k3 and use the renaming tool to change the
domain name and upgrade exchange to 2k3 instead of migrating?

Any help, as always much appreciated

It would be a hell of a lot less hastle to upgrade and change rather
than migrate.
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Andrew
Guest
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Exchange between forests Reply with quote
I have the docs here for an upgrade and domain name change, I suppose the
only thing is being able to put forward the costs and hope the powers that be
would go for paying for win2k3 and exch2k3.

BTW, we run exch2k ent, could we install a exch2k3 server and migrate the
mailboxes before the domain upgrade and rename?

Thanks for your help, Andrew

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

Quote:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:05:07 -0800, Andrew
Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Hello all,

We run win2k and exch2k with a single forest and AD domain. We may be
wanting to create a new forest (due to the org wanting the name changed), if
we make a new forest and migrate the user etc into it, what do we do with
exchange? Can we leave it and migrate mailboxes between forests to a new
exchange server?

Should we upgrade our AD to win2k3 and use the renaming tool to change the
domain name and upgrade exchange to 2k3 instead of migrating?

Any help, as always much appreciated

It would be a hell of a lot less hastle to upgrade and change rather
than migrate.
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Steven
Guest
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Exchange between forests Reply with quote
This may help:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Domain-Rename.html

And also, according to this:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx

You have to be running Exchnage 2003 SP1 in order to properly rename the
forest with Exchange installed.


"Andrew" wrote:

Quote:
I have the docs here for an upgrade and domain name change, I suppose the
only thing is being able to put forward the costs and hope the powers that be
would go for paying for win2k3 and exch2k3.

BTW, we run exch2k ent, could we install a exch2k3 server and migrate the
mailboxes before the domain upgrade and rename?

Thanks for your help, Andrew

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:05:07 -0800, Andrew
Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Hello all,

We run win2k and exch2k with a single forest and AD domain. We may be
wanting to create a new forest (due to the org wanting the name changed), if
we make a new forest and migrate the user etc into it, what do we do with
exchange? Can we leave it and migrate mailboxes between forests to a new
exchange server?

Should we upgrade our AD to win2k3 and use the renaming tool to change the
domain name and upgrade exchange to 2k3 instead of migrating?

Any help, as always much appreciated

It would be a hell of a lot less hastle to upgrade and change rather
than migrate.
Back to top
Andrew
Guest
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 7:19 pm    Post subject: RE: Exchange between forests Reply with quote
Thanks for all your help chaps, one more......can you move mailboxes between
forests? if we migrated to a new forest, can we access mail in the old
forest and migrate the mailboxes to a new server in the new forest, would it
have to use the same org name?

"Andrew" wrote:

Quote:
Hello all,

We run win2k and exch2k with a single forest and AD domain. We may be
wanting to create a new forest (due to the org wanting the name changed), if
we make a new forest and migrate the user etc into it, what do we do with
exchange? Can we leave it and migrate mailboxes between forests to a new
exchange server?

Should we upgrade our AD to win2k3 and use the renaming tool to change the
domain name and upgrade exchange to 2k3 instead of migrating?

Any help, as always much appreciated
Back to top
Steven
Guest
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Exchange between forests Reply with quote
If you have Exchange 2003 in your new forest, it has a nice tool called
"Migration Wizard". While it can be used for a number of things, moving
mailboxes between forests is something that it can be used for. Do a search
for it by name and I am sure you will come up with some documentation. Below
will get you started:

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-Migration-Wizard.html

"Steven" wrote:

Quote:
This may help:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Domain-Rename.html

And also, according to this:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx

You have to be running Exchnage 2003 SP1 in order to properly rename the
forest with Exchange installed.


"Andrew" wrote:

I have the docs here for an upgrade and domain name change, I suppose the
only thing is being able to put forward the costs and hope the powers that be
would go for paying for win2k3 and exch2k3.

BTW, we run exch2k ent, could we install a exch2k3 server and migrate the
mailboxes before the domain upgrade and rename?

Thanks for your help, Andrew

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:05:07 -0800, Andrew
Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Hello all,

We run win2k and exch2k with a single forest and AD domain. We may be
wanting to create a new forest (due to the org wanting the name changed), if
we make a new forest and migrate the user etc into it, what do we do with
exchange? Can we leave it and migrate mailboxes between forests to a new
exchange server?

Should we upgrade our AD to win2k3 and use the renaming tool to change the
domain name and upgrade exchange to 2k3 instead of migrating?

Any help, as always much appreciated

It would be a hell of a lot less hastle to upgrade and change rather
than migrate.
Back to top
 
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