Exchange 2003 on Evan Hoffman

Finally, all users moved from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:29:44 +0000

I’ve been working on migrating our Exchange environment from 2003 to 2010 for several months. My first post about this is from April 14th, when I was just trying to virtualize our existing Exchange 2003 system. Once that was complete, I started playing around with Exchange 2010 around June or July, and had most of the users moved over to 2010 by the end of August. The last holdouts were Blackberry users. I couldn’t move their mailboxes because our BES was hosted on our original Exchange 2003 server.

Converting Exchange 2003 conference rooms to Exchange 2010

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:25:27 +0000

I’m wrapping up moving mailboxes to Exchange 2010. The last ones to be moved (except for BlackBerry users… thanks BES) are the conference rooms. So the first step was to move them using the Local Move tool, which was pretty simple. But I don’t want them in 2010 as user mailboxes if they can be designated as “rooms,” which they can. So here’s how I’m doing it:

Identify the mailboxes to be moved

The Joy of Migrating from Exchange 2003 to 2010

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:57:13 +0000

I’ve been working on migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 for several weeks. Actually, at this point it feels like several months. Now that I think about it, I guess that’s because it’s actually been several months.

Back in January or February, I got fed up with the Exchange setup I inherited: our Exchange 2003 server was running on a server in the basement of our office, on non-UPS power, with a power company that likes to pull shenanigans (like 3-4 hour outages every few months). In addition, the physical machine itself has some weird bug where it would hang at the POST screen complaining about some USB device, even though there are no USB devices plugged in, and USB is disabled in the BIOS. Meanwhile, in the datacenter, I had recently finished migrating most of our ancient physical servers to virtual machines on beautiful new hardware. It didn’t take long to see the solution that seemed to be obvious: move Exchange to the datacenter, in a VM.

Exchange 2010 and Set-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory Identity

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:43:21 +0000

I don’t really know why I put this blog up, but generally I write stuff here after I muddle through some ridiculous problem that may have ended up being easily resolved, but whose solution was hard to find. That’s definitely the case with this post. Currently I’m in the middle of moving my company’s email from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. Microsoft has provided some pretty good documentation on how to do this, but they do assume a certain level of familiarity with the product. For example, I probably spent 30 minutes trying to run Exchange cmdlets in Powershell before I realized there’s a special shell just for Exchange, the Exchange Management Shell.