Migrating from 5.5 to 2003

[Nocturnalis]

I was told that when migrating from exchange 5.5 to exchange 2003 that all users cantacts and calander do NOT migrate over but instead everyone has to make PST files of those areas. Is this in fact the case?

 

[Nocturnalis]

Nevermind I found the answers.

 

[troye]

What were the answers that you found? Do the Calander and Contacts move over as planned? OR is there some other means to do this?

Troy

 

[xmsre]

Huh? Calendars and contacts go; rules don't.

 

[Marcs41]

An extract from one of the Howto pages below:


The Migration Wizard performs the following tasks:
Migrate all mailbox information to the new Exchange mailboxes, including the following data:

- Inbox
- Drafts
- Sent Items
- Calendar
- Tasks
- Custom folders that were created by the mailbox owner Contacts


- Create new user accounts in Active Directory (if they do not already exist) based on the Exchange 5.5 accounts in the source organization.

- Migrate X.400, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail, and other e-mail addresses into the e-mail addresses attribute of the new user account in Active Directory.

- Convert Active Directory contacts to mail-enabled user accounts in Active Directory (if these contacts have been created with the Active Directory Connector) when you migrate from Exchange 5.5. If a contact has been manually created in the target Active Directory and a mailbox that has the same alias is migrated, a new disabled user account with a 1 appended to the name is created in Active Directory. The original contact remains unchanged. Only contacts that are created by the ADC are converted into mail-enabled user accounts by the Migration Wizard.

- Update Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003 group membership when you migrate from Exchange 5.5. However, Exchange 5.5 distribution lists are not migrated. For example, if a distribution group in Active Directory contains contacts, during a migration procedure these contacts may be converted to user accounts that are turned off, and the distribution group in Active Directory is updated to reflect this change.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=328871

Marc
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