Migration from Exchange 5.5 to ExchangeW2K...

[1Drisnil]

Our IT team has the project this summer of migrating our NT4 network to a W2K network. The following are some questions that arose during some meetings on the planning and deployment stages.

With less than 75 users on an existing Exchange 5.5 server on an NT4 Lan and building a new W2K/Exchange 2K box in a new W2K domain, will we(our IT Team) need to use the ADMT tool or a like tool to migrate from NT4.0 to AD?

If we add the migrated user's mailboxes manually to Exchange2K (clean start) - can I export/import selected mailbox/public folder data to the Exchange2K user mailboxes without migrating the whole 5.5 server using ADCs? Possibly using .csv files or other import tool?

Our goal is to start fresh with only selected data migrated. With such a small number of users, we aren't worried about recreating anything manually, our team has the time.

Does anyone have thoughts on the feasibility of these ideas? All replies appreciated.



Inquiring Minds,

 

[fdahlman]

You should be able to export the mailboxes to a .pst file using exmerge, then import them with Exchange 2000 exmerge. The aliase name does have to match the name of the .pst file name. For example, if you were going to import the mailbox for Joe User, who has an aliase of juser, the pst needs to be juser.pst. Does that make sense? I personally would just build the new exchange 2000 server in the same Organization, and then move the users to the new machine. Go through the removal of the first Exchange server in an organization Procedure from Microsoft (I think it is tech doc 152959) Then you can put your Exchange 2000 Org to Native mode. I did the swing method for my upgrade and it went well. Trying an in place upgrade was a major disaster and even Microsoft said it was not advised. Hope this helped.