I am in the processes of transitioning to 2007 sp1 from 2003 sp2.. I have already started to move mailboxes and have mailboxes on both versions. All end users are running Outlook 2003. Only a few IT users that run Outlook 2007. The default OAL and generation are being done on one of the 2003 back end servers, this server has been having issues with updating the GAL which seems to only be resolved with a reboot. Rather than troubleshooting the issue in 2003, the server should be decomissioned shortly, I would like to move the GAL, OAB generation and distro to the 2007 environment. When is the "best" recommended time to perform this process during a transistion? Any gotchas that I should watch out for? Haven't heard of any but can't hurt to ask, any issues with Outlook 2003 clients pulling OAB and GAL from 2007? Thanks in advance.... chris
This can be done when ever you want really depending on what you want to troubleshoot. If you are going to host the OAB on the 2007 server you need to push replicas of the oab data back to 2003 so they legacy clients that are on 2003 can download the data from the local pf store. One of the easiest things I tell people to do is wait until all of your mailboxes are on 2007 and then just move it once and generate everything on 2007. Then you can have your pf store on the 2007 server for legacy clients and oab v4 for web distribution for 2007 clients. -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Dgoldman http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman Download OABInteg (http://gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Download.aspx?SampleGuid=A2338E73-F521-4071-9B1D-AAF49C346ACD) "Chris Meehan" wrote in message news:B2DA503C-1238-41EE-8E80-22C6454E1DDD@microsoft.com... >I am in the processes of transitioning to 2007 sp1 from 2003 sp2.. I have > already started to move mailboxes and have mailboxes on both versions. All > end users are running Outlook 2003. Only a few IT users that run Outlook > 2007. > > The default OAL and generation are being done on one of the 2003 back end > servers, this server has been having issues with updating the GAL which > seems > to only be resolved with a reboot. > > Rather than troubleshooting the issue in 2003, the server should be > decomissioned shortly, I would like to move the GAL, OAB generation and > distro to the 2007 environment. > > When is the "best" recommended time to perform this process during a > transistion? Any gotchas that I should watch out for? > Haven't heard of any but can't hurt to ask, any issues with Outlook 2003 > clients pulling OAB and GAL from 2007? > > Thanks in advance.... > > chris
