Moving SBS Server Exchange Mailboxes to Server 2003 Exchange

[Daweb]

Hello,

We're wanting to move over exchange mailboxes from one of our subsiduary's
servers. They are using Windows SBS 2000 and we're using Windows Server
2003. First of all can this be done? Second what is the recommended way to
do this? Please provide all steps. Also, will the ExMerge utility work for
SBS 2000(source) to Server 2003(destination)?

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Post by Daweb
Hello,
We're wanting to move over exchange mailboxes from one of our
subsiduary's servers. They are using Windows SBS 2000 and we're
using Windows Server 2003.

And Exchange 2003?

Post by Daweb
First of all can this be done?

Not directly, no, but via exmerge or manual PST export, yes.

Post by Daweb
Second
what is the recommended way to do this? Please provide all steps.

I can't post all the steps for exmerge, but you can very easily look them
up.

Post by Daweb
Also, will the ExMerge utility work for SBS 2000(source) to Server
2003(destination)?

Yes, provided the mailboxes in Exchange 2k are smaller than 2GB. If they are
larger, you'll need to manually export to PST in Outlook, then open the PST
fles in Outlook in your new organization & select/copy the items into the
corresponding mailbox folders. It's not recommended to use Outlook to
*import* data from a PST file.