Moving Exchange to a different domain and server name

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I am new to this. Can some one please give me a step by step instructions on how to move e-mail boxes and users from the current exchange server to a new domain and new server name.

I am changing the hardware and making the e-mail server as a member server of a domain rather than having it in it's own domain.

I appreciate any help I can get... Thanks in advance

 

[Rovin]

First I would recommend you look at

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...hNet/prodtechnol/exchange/support/edrv3p2.asp

This is the disaster recovery guide from Microsoft and is well worth a read as it highlights potential pitfuls.

Other than that we had to export all the mailboxes on one of our new sites recently to get them onto our domain. To do this goto to each client and export the mailbox as a pst file to a different server or some form of media. Then wipe the mailserver, rebuild it completely bringing it onto the domain. Create all the users and then from each client import the pst file.

This is fine for a small number of users, but is a pain when your talking of 10 or more.

You can export the mailbox list to a CSV file from the Exchange administrator, and then recreate the user list from it - can be a pain as you will have to edit some of the lines with the new mailservers name.

 

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