Re: Cannot move mailboxes between two Exchange 5.5 servers.

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From: "Andy David - [MVP]" <adavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:25:51 -0500

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:19:01 -0800, "Nex-Tech Support Staff"
<NexTechSupportStaff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The option to move mailboxes between servers is greyed out. The new server is
>specifically to swing into 2003 so I can remove the old server which is also
>a domain controller.
>
>Any Ideas?
>
>Thanks
>Ashley Heaton

Is the swing server installed into the existing 5.5 org?

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