Things To Plan For When Migrating Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007
Working for a consulting agency, I often have to develop a migration plan along with an approximate timeline of how it will go. Below is my list of things to do or verify when performing an Exchange migration, along with commands or links to posts on how to do it.
Install Exchange 2007 – 2 hours
Configure/Verify OWA – 1/2 hour
Move OWA certificate – 1/2 hour
http://www.serverintellect.com/support/iis6/ssl-pfx.aspx
Configure Public Folder replication – 1 hour
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124322(EXCHG.65).aspx
Move Offline Address Book – 1/2 hour
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123917.aspx
Configure/Verify internal and external autodiscover – 1 hour
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb201695.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940881
Create Storage Groups and Databases – 1/2 hour
Move-DatabasePath ServerStorageGroupMailboxStore -EDBFilePath X:PathToDatabase
Move-StorageGroupPath -identity SERVERName of the StorageGroup -LogFolderPath X:PathToLogFiles -SystemFolderPath X:SystemFolderPath
Mobile phone reconfiguration – 15 minutes/phone
Move mailboxes – 8GB/hour on a Gigabit LAN
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