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    • December 22, 2005

    Completing an Exchnage 5.5 to 2003 Migration

    Filed under: Uncategorized — Jason Hartley @ 12:36 am

    After you have the mailboxes moved from the Exchange 5.5 servers to the new Exchange 2003 servers, there are several steps which need to be completed. This includes replicating and re-homing Public Folders (user and system folders), moving connectors, and removing the ADC and SRS components in a particular order.

    The following KB Articles provide the step-by-step information in order to remove Exchange 5.5 from your messaging environment. They should be read all the way through before starting the process in order to get an overview of what needs to be done. They should be read in the order listed below.

  • KB 822450: How to remove the last Exchange Server 5.5 computer from an Exchange Server 2003 administrative group.
  • KB 883407: How to switch outgoing Internet e-mail connectors when you migrate from Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange 2000 Server or to Exchange Server 2003
  • KB 272314: Preparing a Mixed Mode Organization for Conversion to Native Mode

    • This KB article provides step-by-step information on how to remove the first Exchange 2003 server from your organization. Which is commonly an interim server deployed to run the ADC and SRS services.

  • KB 822931: How to remove the first Exchange Server 2003 computer from the administrative group

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