Migration from Exch5.5 gone bad!!!

[virek]

OK, I have inherited an E5.5 --> E2003 which has gone bad and need a little heads up to try to resolve the problems.

1st things 1st, the organisation:

- 1 AD Forest
- 2 AD Domains (CH & MO) - names changed to protect the innocent ;-)


What happened?

- Installation of E2003 in CD domain using install wizard - ok
- Installation and auto config of ADC using wizard - not completely ok (i'll expand later)
- Transfer of mailboxes to E2003 server - some (see above)

Basically what happened is that the ADC managed to link some of the mailboxes with some of the accounts in the domain CH and it was possible to transfer the mailbox - for those users things seem to be ok (sort of - again i'll expand later).

For the other users, about 150 or so, the ADC created a new disabled account in the MO domain ie the WRONG home domain of the user.

- What happened next is that for each of these users a new mailbox was created and an ExMerge was perfomed to move the mail from the E5.5 to the E2003. Outlook was updated manually and all seems to be reasonably ok.

- The AD connections were removed apart from the SRS and the ConfigCA's

Public folders were then migrated usign pfMigrate and all seem to be on the E2003.

The problems:

1. Inability to completely de-install E5.5 from the organisation - seems to be problem with rights...I'll conform this weekend
2. Users in CH do not have rights to open pf's on the CH E2003 folder - if I try to amend the permissions on the container (users effectively do not have the permission to read the pf container) I get an error message LDAP error 8007005 - googling turns up nothing useful

Questions:

1. Should all the disabled users (auto created by the ADC) in the MO domain be deleted? I think yes but looking for confirmation.
2. If that is done will that delete the mailboxes on the E5.5, if so is it a problem - I think not!
3. To comletely clean this org up, do I need to have completely removed E5.5 and all the ADC related stuff?
4. How can I get the users the correct rights to use the pf's?

Many thanks in advance.

Matthew

Matthew

-=+ I'm like Ma Bell I got the ill communications +=-

 

[markdmac]

Lots going on here it seems.

To properly remove your Exchange 5.5 follow the steps in this MSKB:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822450

Before doing that I would suggest using Exmerge to make a final and safe backup of the user mailboxes.

If I understand your post correctly, ADC created some disabled accounts for your users, but in the wrong domain. Do you now have them set up and working in the other domain? If so Then I would delete those IDs.

For the public folders, you will need to check the NTFS file permissions on the Pub1.EDB and Pub1.stm files and make sure your users have read and modify rights to the folders. From within Exchange System manager you will want to right clickt he Public Store and choose Properties, then Security and set the appropriate permissions to the store. Then log in as Administrator to a desktop and use Outlook to review and set the end user rights at each public folder.

If you still have all of the public folders up and running on Exchange 5.5 you might want to try deleting the public folders on 2003 and then set up replicas of the folders instead of using PfMigrate. Using the replicas you then break the replica and set the new server as the default location. That should preserve whatever rights you had on the old server for you.

Before doing any of the above I advise you make and test backups of all servers.



I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[virek]

Mark,

Thanks for the quick response.

Sounds like I've got a little work to do over the weekend ;-) I doesn't help that its on a different Island too!!!!

If I understand correctly I need to find out why the procedure for removing exchange didn't work the first time somebody tried it, that i'll see on saturday and then proceed from there with your suggestions.

Many thanks again.

Matthew

Matthew

-=+ I'm like Ma Bell I got the ill communications +=-