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.

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The Joy of Migrating from Exchange 2003 to 2010

Exchange 2010 and Set-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory Identity