Re: Moving from POP3 (.PST) to Exchange Server.
From: Dave Nickason [SBS MVP] (gwdibble_at_NOSPAM.frontiernet.net)
Date: 01/07/05
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:29:12 -0500
I'll give you the condensed version and you can post back if necessary. I'd
recommend doing your own workstation/mail profile first so if anything gets
messed up, your other users will not be affected (not that anything should
get messed up). This is pretty easy and all the steps are undo-able if
necessary.
1. On the SBS, make sure everything to do with Exchange is running and
configured (CEICW).
2. In Outlook on your workstation, clear out the pop settings so Outlook is
not trying to retrieve mail from the ISP.
3. On your workstation, in Outlook, go to tools/e-mail accounts. Select
Add a new e-mail account, and add Exchange Server to your existing profile.
This should be pretty self-explanatory. IMPORTANT: make sure the "deliver
new e-mail to" option is set to deliver new items to Mailbox-Username, NOT
personal folders or anything similar. Finish the wizard. Restart Outlook.
4. Open the Folder List in Outlook. You should see your server mailbox in
the format Mailbox-Username, and under that Personal Folders. If so,
everything's set up correctly.
5. Now go to the File menu and choose Import and Export. Import the PST
into the empty server mailbox, making sure you choose all the subfolders,
deleted items, etc - everything.
6. Go back to the Folder list. You'll see that all the folders (Inbox,
Calendar, etc.) appear under both Mailbox - Username and Personal Folders.
Satisfy yourself that everything in the PST is also in the Mailbox by
clicking on each folder and comparing the number of items it contains.
7. R-click on Personal Folders and close the PST. Shut down Outlook, and
do something to make the PST unavailable - rename or move it for example.
(Don't delete until you're sure of success). You want to make sure that no
messages intended for the server mailbox can accidentally end up in the PST,
remembering that the PST contains all the folders contained in the mailbox,
so confusion is possible if you skip this step.
8. On the server, configure the POP connector to retrieve your mail from
the ISP mailbox and deliver it to your Exchange Server mailbox.
9. Test everything, including the sending and receiving of internal and
external e-mail.
10. At your leisure, you can do this for everyone else in your
organization.
11. Once you're completely comfortable that you've done all this
successfully, I'd get rid of the personal folders and remove the Personal
Folders service from the Outlook profiles.
"Ken Le Gall" <kenlegall@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:%23eUxKyP9EHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> Having spent my Christmas installing a brand new server (SBS-2003) in the
> office, I am now enhancing everyones capability.
>
> The current set-up for eMail, is that ours is hosted externally, and we
> all
> use Outlook, to send/receive via POP3 and the .pst files are on the
> network
> (for backup purposes).
>
> Now I really would love to start using Exchange.
>
> Does anyone have a list of 'Steps' or link(s) to guides or manuals on how
> I
> would go about moving the Server, eMail and Clients from local POP3 to
> Exchange ?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Ken.
>
>
>
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