Re: E5.5 - E2003 Migration Wizard Problem

From: Rand Williams [MSFT] (randw_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:20:13 -0500

You are missing SID history on the new accounts.
The Migration Wizard is trying to either create a new account in the new
domain for the mailbox data your are migrating, or it is trying to find an
existing User account in the new domain that has a SID history that the
mailbox is associated with.

The easiest solution if your users are not already using the User accounts
in the new domain is to simply delete them and let MigWiz create new ones
for you.

Or you could leave the existing accounts in the new domain and let MigWiz
create new ones when it migrates mailbox data, typically with a -1 appended
to them. Then after this you could:
-delete the new accounts
-This will leave the migrated mailbox data on the new E2k3 server for 30
days.
-Go to the mailbox Store on the new server, select the mailbox store, right
click, select run cleanup agent,
(this will result in the mailboxes appearing with Red Xs on them, indicated
they are not connected to User accounts)
-now you can select he mailbox, right click, choose Reconnect, and select
the User account you want to associate the mailbox with

You can test this process with a test mailbox or a live one since MigWiz
leaves data on the 5.5 server anyway.

328871 How To Use the Exchange Migration Wizard to Migrate Mailboxes From an
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=328871

842762 The "Exchange Server 2003 Deployment Guide" guide for Microsoft
Exchange
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=842762

Of course you will need to create new User profiles on client machines for
the new domain and create new Exchange profiles for Outlook. 

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Hope that helps,
Rand Williams
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"Richard K" <Richard K@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:F259BD0F-D525-469F-AB03-C615BD8658C1@microsoft.com...
> OK, hopefully this is a simple problem (and answer).
>
> 1.  I have an E5.5 server running in an NT4.0 domain.
> 2.  I also have an E2003 running in a seperate AD/2003 domain.  There is a
> trust between the domains.
> 3.  I have already created the new accounts in the AD/2003 so all I need 
> to
> do is map the old to the new account and migrate the mailboxes
> 3.  When I run the E2003 Migration Wizard to copy mailboxes to the new 
> E2003
> box I can step right through it... see the new E2003 box, log on to the 
> E5.5
> box, select mailboxes to copy.
> 4.  I also set the checkbox option to "create/modify" accounts.  Since I
> already have destination accounts I am thinking there would be a simple
> mapping (don't know exactly how it maps, username?  please tell me what
> criteria it uses) and migrate.
> 5.  The migration process comes back with "accounts already exist" so it
> errors out.
>
> Well.... I know the destination accout already exists, so don't create it
> just map the old to new and migrate the mail box!  What am I missing here 
> in
> the migration wizard?  When it shows me the step of users to migrate it 
> does
> not seem to be able to see the old and new and just migrate.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Richard
>
>

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