Re: Need help getting Exchange 5.5 global recipients list into Exchange 2000

From: Michael Barta [MSFT] (mbarta_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:02:14 -0600

Exchange 2000 doesn't use a dir.edb. It only uses Active Directory. If you
want to get the information out of the Dir.edb build a recovery server in a
lab and put the dir.edb there so that you can export it. You need to have
the same Org, Site and server name to restore the dir.edb. 

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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1113901c3f44e$c245b300$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I was able to mount the public and private message
> databases (pub.edb and priv.edb) but I can't get the
> dir.edb database to mount.  This database contains the
> recipients not mailboxes from the Exch 5.5 system.
>
> Is there some other utility I can use to export this data
> out of this exchange database?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Exchange 2000 doesn't have its own directory so you want
> to get them in AD.
> >
> >If you used the databases from 5.5 and were able to get
> them to mount
> >properly, you should be able to run the clean up agent to
> mark them as
> >disconnected.
> >Then you can reconnect them to AD accounts. You can do
> this manually with
> >ESM or this can be automated with the mbconn utility on
> the Exchange 2000
> >CD.
> >
> >If they do not have AD accounts you can use MBConn to
> create an import file
> >to create them.
> >Then run it again to reconnect them.
> >
> >-- 
> >Michael Barta [MSFT]
> >Microsoft Exchange Support
> >
> >Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. This
> alias is for
> >newsgroup purposes only.
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> >
> >"Dave Ketterer" <davek@cdsconsulting.com> wrote in message
> >news:B822E981-B926-4A06-9B4B-004C06345520@microsoft.com...
> >> I had Windows NT 4 crash (running Exchange 5.5) and had
> to install W2K and
> >Exchange 2000 to get the server back up and running.  I
> got the Exch 5.5
> >information stores into Exch 2000 but I don't know how to
> get the global
> >recipient into AD (I assume that end up in AD) so the
> customer can send out
> >to the numerous lists they had in this list.  None of the
> data was lost on
> >the server so I have the Exch 5.5 database of all these
> lists and email
> >addresses.  How can I import this into AD or the Exch
> 2000 directory.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Dave
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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