Re: 5.5 to 2003 migration

From: Neil Hobson [MVP] (neil.hobson_at_nospam.silversands.co.uk)
Date: 10/15/04

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    No, you won't have duplicate accounts. I assume you have 5.5 and your
    'Primary NT Account' fields for each Exchange 5.5 mailbox are set to an AD
    account? If so, when you install and configure the ADC, it will find the
    accounts in AD and match them. 

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"mctforhire" <mctforhire@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FF8ADFBE-07B5-47A5-B5B0-C006DCF60005@microsoft.com...
> From what I read, the migration creates the ad accounts then matches the
> mailboxes up. What if all of the accounts already exist in AD? We are
already
> running 2000 domain, we just need to upgrade exchange...am i going to have
> duplicate user accounts? will the cleanup wizard fix this?
>
> Thanks in advance
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