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by mikeflores

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I need to know how to move mailboxes to a new Exchange 2000 server and also move the public folders. Then how do I reconfigure the client side. Do I need to worry anything else. I tried but could not configure the client side;it could not find the new server;something about not having a catalog server. Can anyone help me?
Im not worried about my mistake because I did it in a test environment.

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by jpeezus

Mike. depending on how many mailboxes you have I would suggest copying everyone's mail to a PST file. including the public folder. once the new exchange server is ready for production you have to go to everyone's outlook client and point them to thenew server. once you have done that you can import all the PST files back and import the public folder contents also. I just did an Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 Migration and this is what worked best for me.

after doing this I would also suggestscavenging the WINS database to rid yourself of extra Wins records.

by edrossius

I assume you have a W2K domain with 1 Exchange 2000. You want to move mailboxes et PF (Public Folders) on a 2nd Exchange 2000 (new server).

Install your 2nd Exchange server in the same organization. Once installation's done, go in ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers), right-click a user you want its mailbox to be moved, select "Exchange Tasks". A wizard opens. Select the "Move mailbox" task and provide informations to the wizard (that is: the destination server). Go to the end of the wizard: your mailbox has been moved.

For public folders, go in the Exchange System Manager, expand the tree down to "Public Folders instances". Select one PF, and then open its properties. You can configure a second server to host the replication of your PF. Once configured, wait for replication (replication time depends on amount of data of course).

Once your mailboxes are moved and your PFs are replicated, you can uninstall the first Exchange 2000 (before doing it, check Technet to be sure everything is OK before "deleting" the 1st server).

Hope this will help.

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