I'm doing a migration from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003 and will be using the Exchange Migration tool on the 2003 box. The 2000 mailbox store is about 12GB, does anyone know how long it will take to migrate this amount of data? Both systems will be on the same physical network. Also, does the Exchange Migration tool bring over the mailbox info as well as the user info from active directory? (i.e. profile path, home folder path, group membership) Thanks for any help provided, I really appreciate it.
This depends on a few factors. How fast is your connection to the new server? A rough estimate is 4GIG per hour. You may be able to reduce the size of the database depending on how much whitespace you have. Have a look in your event logs for these events: Event: 1221 Source: MSExchangeIS Private Type: Information Category: General Description: The database has nnn megabytes of free space after online defragmentation has terminated. Event: 1221 Source: MSExchangeIS Public Type: Information Category: General Description: The database has nnn megabytes of free space after online defragmentation has terminated You may be able to reduce the size of the database and then do the migration, this should make the migration much faster depending upon how much free space is freed up "Travis" wrote: > I'm doing a migration from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003 and will be using > the Exchange Migration tool on the 2003 box. The 2000 mailbox store is about > 12GB, does anyone know how long it will take to migrate this amount of data? > Both systems will be on the same physical network. > > Also, does the Exchange Migration tool bring over the mailbox info as well > as the user info from active directory? (i.e. profile path, home folder path, > group membership) > > Thanks for any help provided, I really appreciate it.
Hi, Exchange migration tools only migrates mailbox data. All user info is part of active directory data and must be migrated from here. If you are migrating from ex2000 to ex2003 in the same domain there is no AD data to migrate as you can use the same Ad for both servers (and there is no need to use migration wizard - use move mailbox). Leif "Travis" wrote in message news:D9EB8C17-452D-43BA-A3FA-2DDA66D7F3B2@microsoft.com... > I'm doing a migration from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003 and will be > using > the Exchange Migration tool on the 2003 box. The 2000 mailbox store is > about > 12GB, does anyone know how long it will take to migrate this amount of > data? > Both systems will be on the same physical network. > > Also, does the Exchange Migration tool bring over the mailbox info as well > as the user info from active directory? (i.e. profile path, home folder > path, > group membership) > > Thanks for any help provided, I really appreciate it.
