Move mailboxes b/w E2K servers

[Edney]

Hi all,

I am wanting to move maiboxes b/w 2 exchange 2000 servers that exist in the same organization. When I am trying to move mailboxes (by right clicking user account in AD users & computers, exchange tasks, move mailbox) I cannot move the mailbox, the other server is greyed out and not available. I have tried doing this as domain admin, with the exchange service account, etc..
One server belongs to one admin group, the other server belongs to a different admin group.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks Edney.

 

[isguyatlanta]

Do you have Exchange Full Administrator rights on both admin groups?

 

[Edney]

Hi,

I have tried moving mailboxes as users with Exchange Full rights and Exchange Administrator rights, still no joy, any suggestions??

 

[isguyatlanta]

I think that the users must has full admin rights in BOTH the groups that the servers are in. If your user does not have Admin rights on both servers then you may have a problem.

 

[Edney]

I have FULL Administrator rights in both admin groups currently, anymore suggestions??

 

[Xybertron]

I thought I replied?

You can't move mailboxes between admin groups in Mixed Mode.

Is your Org Native mode? Dan
Microsoft Exchange Support @ Microsoft

 

[Edney]

Thanks Dan,

this will be the problem, our Windows 2000 Domain is still in mixed mode. We have no pre-Windows 2000 domain controllers so will convert to native mode then give it a whirl.

Thanks again, Cheers Edney.

 

[isguyatlanta]

I think Dan means your Exchange Org not the Domain. ?

 

[jaksen112]

In ESM right click your ORG name and check if native or mixed mode. 01110000

 

[Edney]

Thankyou for everyone's help, this has been resolved by changing the E2K org to native mode.
I wasnt able to switch to native mode without removing the old directory connectors from the Ex5.5 admin tool, after that everything was no problem.

 

[dmanlam]

Somewhat on the topic...can you RESTORE a mailbox from one Exchg server to another (servers are in the same domain/organization)? I thought I read that this can be done, but haven't had success. Any confirmations that this can be done? Any ideas how to restore mailboxes to another server if server1 crashes, but server2 is still running?

Thanks,
Drew

 

[jaksen112]

well if the mailbox is on server1 and server1 bites it, go to tape, redirect the restore to server2 01110000