Moving mailboxes to Exchange 2003

[JordanCN]

My hardware is getting a little old for my Exchange 2003 on W2k3 x32 server and the large amount of mail I have on it. I was thinking of just bringing up a whole new server on W2003 x64.

If I do this and move the mailboxes through exchange will I lose my single instance storage on my mail messages and cause my IS to expand?

Is there a way to just lift the edb and stm files onto the new server and reconnect them.

 

[58sniper]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555468

You have a legacy version of the product. You'd be far better off doing an upgrade to 2010 and getting into a supported scenario. BTW - single instance storage has been removed from the current version. It was shown to not be as beneficial as was intended.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

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