Move site from one Org to another 1

[age]

Hi, can anyone tell me the best way to move an entire site from one organisation to another. My company is in the process of rebranding, and as part of that they want to rename the Exchange Organization. As far as I know, you can't rename the organization, so we plane to build a new exchange server, with the new Org name, and then migrate the existing exchange database over to it. Any advice would be much appreciated.

cheers...

Adrian.

 

[jwharks]

Bad news I'm afraid, this is not a quick task.

We did this and found the only way to rename the organisation was firstly get everybody to export their mail to pst files. Then reinstall Exchange from scratch, so that you recreate your existing structure but with the new Organisation name.

Finally get everybody to import their pst files into their mailboxes.

Best of luck.

 

[dbredenberg]

Alternately, you can use the EXMERGE program. In essense, you're doing the same thing -- EXMERGE just exports all of the accounts from a central location. (Don't have to go to each desk)

In either case, there are certain caveats to watch for:
- Migrating via PSTs breaks the single-store mechnism in Exchange. This can increase the size of the Exchange store dramatically.
- The internal X.400 addressing on existing messages does not get migrated. In order to reply to mail that exists on the system pre-migration, the users will have to forward the message rather than hit the reply button. NOTE: This only applies to pre-migration mail.
- If there name of the mail account has changed (marital status, etc), the pst will be given the original name, not the new name.

-- DaveBr

 

[Guest_imported]

To use pst's from one machine, just setup a "tempadmin" account and give it access to all the mailboxes and open them on one machine. Clunky but it works.

David