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by rakesh.chawda

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Hi

I woder if anyone could help me with this situation.

we have 2 companies - company1.co.uk company2.co.uk

each company are at different locations both running exchange 5.5 for there
own organisation and sitename.
we are currently merging the 2 companies and will be called company3.co.uk.

between the 2 comapnies we have a 10meg link. we want to intergrate both our
exchange servers which will include all companies email address, distribution list and calandars etc. and also use
company3.co.uk as the parent email address.

is there a way of doing this with the existing exchange 5.5 servers with minimum amount of configuration amendments. would i need to use site connector.

any help will beappreciated.

thanks

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by tony.colgrove

Microsoft provides the Move Server Wizard, that can be used to merge/move Exchange Servers to new sites and/or organizations. The following technet articles explains where to get it. Q259840 - XADM: How to Obtain Move Server Wizard
Once you download it, read through the documentation. The Wizard does have some limitations and gotha's to be aware of.
If you have a 10M link between locations a site connector probably isn't required, but it all depends on available bandwidth.
If for any reason you are looking to rebuilt one or both of the servers, use the ExMerge tool. It pulls out all mailboxes into pst's would can then be merged into a new server.
An additional note: If you do use the Move Server Wizard, make sure BOTH server are on at least SP3, and I would recommend bringing both servers to SP4 before the move.

by mckaytech

Depending on the number of users, I think I would just export everything to *.pst files, rebuild the servers as two sites within a new Exchange organization and import the existing information.

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