Hi there, i will explain my situation first. I have Exchange 5.5 SP3 running on an old NT4 server and i have just purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2550 Windows2000 server. I want to install Exchange 5.5 on the Windows2000 server and move everything from the old NT4 server(settings, mailboxes, information store etc..) to reside on the new Windows2000 server. What is the best way of doing this?
I currently have installed Exchange 5.5 on the new Windows2000 server(no active directory installed) and joined the Exchange site residing on the NT4 server. Now that seems to work fine but i want to be able to move all mailboxes and settings to the Windows2000 server so i can shut down the old NT4 server. Is this going to work or do i need to go about this a different way? I want to have ONLY the Windows2000 server running Exchange 5.5 and shut down the old NT4 Exchange server but move everything to the new server first. Now is joining the site the way to go or should i be looking at doing this another way.
Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.
TY...SOKO
I currently have installed Exchange 5.5 on the new Windows2000 server(no active directory installed) and joined the Exchange site residing on the NT4 server. Now that seems to work fine but i want to be able to move all mailboxes and settings to the Windows2000 server so i can shut down the old NT4 server. Is this going to work or do i need to go about this a different way? I want to have ONLY the Windows2000 server running Exchange 5.5 and shut down the old NT4 Exchange server but move everything to the new server first. Now is joining the site the way to go or should i be looking at doing this another way.
Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.
TY...SOKO