Migration to Exchange 2007 Oddities

[Guest Kelly [MCSE]]

A week or so ago we started running low on storage for our current

Exchange 2003 setup. Instead of slapping on more storage, we decided

to migrate to Exchange 2007 on a shiny new server with loads of

storage since we planned on doing it later this year anyways. The

installation of Exchange 2007 and the new server into our current

environment (having mail flow from outside to new server to old server

and vice versa worked great) and even the migration of mailboxes to

the new server worked perfect without any issues. Our BES also

switched over fine once we updated the MAPI profile for the BES Admin

account. There's just a couple of random issues that aren't causing

any trouble, just am curious to why they may exist and how to fix them

if possible.

 

1 -- A few of the transferred mailboxes are now listed as "Linked

Mailboxes" instead of plain old "User Mailboxes." I read up on the

fact that linked mailboxes are usually when Exchange is deployed into

a resource forest, but we are one forest, one domain, so that can't be

why they are listed as such. Any input on this?

 

2 -- The storage space on the old Exchange 2003 server has not freed

up since the mailbox move. Do we need to run some sort of cleaning/

truncating method on the Exchange DB on the old server?

 

3 -- The first "new" mailbox I setup on the Exchange 2007 server was

done via ADU&C and making an Exchange mailbox through that and placing

it on the new Exchange 2007 storage group. This mailbox is listed as

a "Legacy Mailbox" even though it has always resided on the Exchange

2007 server. Any insight on this?

 

4 -- Decommissioning the old server...simply just uninstall Exchange

and remove from the domain, or is there more to it?

 

Thanks for any help you guys and gals can be!

 

~Kelly [MCSE]

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Migration to Exchange 2007 Oddities

 

Kelly [MCSE] <kelly.t.reardon@gmail.com> wrote:

> A week or so ago we started running low on storage for our current

> Exchange 2003 setup. Instead of slapping on more storage, we decided

> to migrate to Exchange 2007 on a shiny new server with loads of

> storage since we planned on doing it later this year anyways.

 

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Hi - you will probably get more expert help if you post in

microsoft.public.exchange.admin. This is a general Windows server group, and

Exchange is its own beast. I'm not an E2007 guru (yet) so I can't explain

all the stuff you're seeing.....except for #4, in which case you might see

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822931. Best o' luck.