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EXCH 5.5 Moving Mailboxes between sites

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by stephenmorison

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We are about to move one of our APAC offices off USA based servers and into our APAC site in Exchange.

My question is:

Is there a MS app or Third Party app that we can use to selectively move mailboxes between sites?

Thanks
Stephen

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by ntoz

The Microsoft BackOffice Resource Kit contains two utilities?Exmerge and Migrate?that help you move mailboxes between containers or sites. I usually recommend using the latest version of tools, because software tends to improve in functionality and quality over time. Therefore, I recommend using the Exmerge and Migrate tools in the resource kit's second edition, which Microsoft released in 1998. Microsoft has updated Exmerge since releasing the resource kit's second edition. The latest version of the utility (2.32) adds useful features and fixes a few minor bugs; for example, the new version lets you process only specific folders or move only items that meet date criteria. However, Microsoft hasn't provided any formal mechanism for distributing Exmerge 2.32. If you want the latest copy of Exmerge, you'll have to request it from your local Microsoft contact. The Exmerge version in the resource kit's second edition works well, and administrators have used it successfully in many large projects, so I see no compelling reason to worry about obtaining the new version.

by ntoz

Both Exmerge and Migrate aim to automate the process of exporting mailbox data to a personal store and then importing the data into a new mailbox on the target server. Manually exporting and importing data is tedious, and the operation becomes more irksome when you're moving mailboxes that contain more than a few megabytes. You'll appreciate the tools if you ever move a mailbox between sites.

Exmerge is newer than Migrate and is my favorite of the two tools, even though Exmerge requires NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) and is available only for Intel servers. Migrate runs on both Intel and Alpha systems. You can use Exmerge to move mailboxes between Alpha servers, as long as you run the utility on an Intel server that's running Exchange Server and as long as the Intel and Alpha servers can communicate. To decide which tool works best for you, test both tools and review the available documentation (which is skimpy). You can find information about the utilities in the exchange\docs\exchtool.hlp folder on the resource kit CD-ROM. The Microsoft article "XADM: How to Use the Mailbox Migration Utility" (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q177/7/76.asp) provides tips for running Migrate.

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