LidoDeJesolo
MIS
Source email system: Exchange 5.5
Target email system: Exchange 2003
Client email system: Outlook 2000
I'll try and explain my situation as clearly as possible.
We have an existing 5.5 system on an NT4.0 platform. However we are going to build a parallel Active Directory and then move servers across to the AD network.
While we are doing this, we also want to use it as an opportunity to clear out all the mailboxes as, like many others, our users tend to horde their emails.
The initial plan was to simply archive their existing mailboxes in Outlook to a PST. Then create a new mailbox for them in Exchange 2003. This would effectively give us a clean start.
The problem: Our users will obviously need to keep their calendars intact during the "move". We want the user perception to be that their emails have been cleaned out, but their calendar remains as it was.
The only solution I can think of so far is to create the PST from the existing mailbox, then delete all emails from that mailbox, and MOVE the mailbox from the 5.5 server to the 2003 server (assuming they are both in the same exchange organisation).
Does anybody have a better suggestion? I cannot see a way of simply copying all calendar items from a PST to a mailbox calendar. That would be our preferred option if possible!
Thanks in advance guys.
Lido
Development & Reporting
UK
Target email system: Exchange 2003
Client email system: Outlook 2000
I'll try and explain my situation as clearly as possible.
We have an existing 5.5 system on an NT4.0 platform. However we are going to build a parallel Active Directory and then move servers across to the AD network.
While we are doing this, we also want to use it as an opportunity to clear out all the mailboxes as, like many others, our users tend to horde their emails.
The initial plan was to simply archive their existing mailboxes in Outlook to a PST. Then create a new mailbox for them in Exchange 2003. This would effectively give us a clean start.
The problem: Our users will obviously need to keep their calendars intact during the "move". We want the user perception to be that their emails have been cleaned out, but their calendar remains as it was.
The only solution I can think of so far is to create the PST from the existing mailbox, then delete all emails from that mailbox, and MOVE the mailbox from the 5.5 server to the 2003 server (assuming they are both in the same exchange organisation).
Does anybody have a better suggestion? I cannot see a way of simply copying all calendar items from a PST to a mailbox calendar. That would be our preferred option if possible!
Thanks in advance guys.
Lido
Development & Reporting
UK
