Questions tagged [exchange-migration]

An Exchange migration refers to the process of migrating to a new version of Exchange, or migrating a between Exchange and different email server. Because Exchange cannot be upgraded in-place between major versions, upgrading Exchange is done by migrating to a newer version instead.

An Exchange migration refers to the process of migrating to a new version of Exchange, or migrating a between Exchange and different email server. Because Exchange cannot be upgraded in-place between major versions, upgrading Exchange is done by migrating to a newer version instead.

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Massive Network Upgrade

I find myself tasked with organizing an upgrade of our entire Active Directory from server 2003 to 2008. We run a few AD dependant services such as Exchange 2007 SQL Server 2008 SharePoint 2007 All of which we are looking to bring up to date as…
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Should I upgrade Exchange 2003 or just upgrade the hardware?

My organization currently has a 4 y/o Exchange 2003 email server (32-bit, Intel Pentium D @ 3GHz, 3GB RAM). It's run very well over the past 4 years but it is time to upgrade its hardware. This server would handle email for approximately 30 clients,…
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changing bridgehead server post-install in a mixed exchange 2010/2003 environment

We have an Exchange 2003 environment (12 exchange site servers with one co-located bridgehead and a single outbound mail connector). Recently we have added an exchange 2010 server to the mix at one of our sites. During the 2010 install (not done by…
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A script for file transfer

Here is my script which I have created for transferring particular types of files from directories. I am struggling to find a way to move the file to archive directory with current time…
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Exchange 2010 - Number of Mailbox Databases?

I'm migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. There's a single Exchange 2003 server which isn't a domain controller, it's only running Exchange 2003. It has 100 mailboxes. The 2003 mailbox database folder size is around 22 GB. I used the…
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Moving MS Exchange 2007 to another machine

We have a machine that has been chugging along with the burden of both Exchange and DC and DNS all with SBS 2008. We have a better machine now and I'd like to move Exchange 2007 to that machine and take it off of this machine. In fact, I'm planning…
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Outlook 2007/2010 autodiscovering old Exchange info

I currently have an Exchange setup as follows: two Exchange 2003 servers clustered together set up as the current mailbox stores, one Exchange 2003 setup as a frontend, one Exchange 2007 set up as a frontend (was set up for testing by my…
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Issue with Exchange 2010 and Removing a Mailbox Database

I did a 2003 to 2010 transition and everything is working well. During the 2010 install, a database was copied over with a random number at the end. I found out and moved three system mailboxes out of it into the database that all of the client…
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ADSIEdit Cleanup After Exchange 2003 Crash During Transition To Exchange 2010

I would value some input from a few Exchange 2010 experts. I have almost completed the transition from Exchange 2003 Standard to Exchange 2010 Standard. Everything went smoothly until I tried to uninstall Exchange 2003. At that point the server bit…
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Moving FederatedEmail/SystemMailbox from One Store to Another - Exchange 2010

Just upgraded from Exchange 2003 to 2010. Somehow, I have two mailbox databases on my single Exchange 2010 server. One database contains all of the mailboxes I had moved from the 2003 exchange server; the other contains two SystemMailboxes and one…
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What is Exchange co-existence?

I see lots of forums talking about Exchange co-existence used as in in-between for upgrade. For example when doing a migration from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010, some sites state that the two should coexist for a short period of time. So in this…
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Exchange 2010 to 2016 (Multi Site)

My scenario: Datacenter #1 — AD Site “A” * -4 ISP internet connections. (Outbound independently) * -2 DCs GC (FSMO) Internal DNS * -2 DNS Servers - External DNS hosted into a DMZ (SPF / MX / PTR records pointing to Site A (mailflow)) * -1 Exchange…
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Migrating from Exchange 2013 to 2019 causes target database to crash

having trouble with migrating Exchange 2013 mailboxes to Exchange 2019. Whenever a mailbox is in the final steps of the migration it causes an outage of the target mailbox (Mailbox Database 2019). The event log on the 2019 server lights up with…
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Migrate Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016, but do it gradually

We have a small-organization, on-premises Exchange 2010 setup running on Server 2008 R2. Our goal is to migrate to Exchange 2016 running on Server 2016 (I guess -- I would prefer Server 2019, but apparently that is not supported for Exchange 2016.)…
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HCW8078 Hybrid Exchange Error

I did a fresh install of DC1 DC2 and Exchange so I'm not sure why I am getting errors still. https://i.stack.imgur.com/78nab.jpg
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