Exchange 2007 - Replicate to new hardware/forest?
We have an Exchange 2007 CCR deployment that we need to move to a new location, and likely into a resource forest type of configuration, so it would no longer remain in the same domain.We also cannot physically move the hardware. Does anyone have any suggestions on if/how this can be done? So far the only way I can think of is to build out the new forest/server at the new location, establish a trust, and use the move-mailbox util. But then, is there a way that could be done without affecting mail delivery? The MX records would need to remain pointing to the existing server until all moves were complete, but mail would need to be delivered for any moved mailboxes to the new server. Is this possible? I'm just brainstorming at this point, but any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Matt
July 11th, 2008 1:30am

This is a complex question and as i'm sure you're aware, requires lots of planning. but to answer the question about co-existance, usually you would share a dns name space by using source.mydomain.com and target.mydomain.com as additional smtp addresses for your users. you could create mail-enabled users or contacts for each user on the opposite system and allow messages to flow that way. this will not address calendar or public folders though. for that you should look into the inter-org replication tool. see here: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2003-SMTP-Namespace-Sharing.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321721
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September 19th, 2008 1:02am

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