Re: Move distribution groups

From: Dave Howe [MSFT] (daveh_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/22/04


Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:41:04 -0500

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:11:53 -0800, "Tim Feurer"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>We have recently upgraded our Exchange 5.5 server to
>Exchange 2000 and have switched Our Windows 2000 domain
>to native mode while Exchange 2000 is still stuck in
>Mixed Mode. During the change over, we placed our
>distribution groups into a separate, Native Mode Domain
>that was at the root of our Forest.
>
>Now that we have gotten rid of our Exchange 5.5 server
>and switched over to a native mode 2000 domain, I would
>like to move our distribution groups back to our domain
>from the forest's root domain. That is, our distribution
>groups reside in A.COM and I want to move them to
>B.A.COM. Is this possible and if so, how do I do it?

You can do this using movetree, a command-line windows utility.

238394 How to Use the MoveTree Utility to Move Objects Between Domains
in a
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=238394

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Dave Howe
Microsoft PSS
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