RE: Upgrading from SBS 2K to SBS 2003

HI Mil,

Thanks for updates.

>From your description, it seems you only export every mailbox to a PST
files as backup, you only want to recover every mailbox for every user. If
I am off target, please let me know.

If this is your issue, this issue should be a outlook issue, please see my
suggestion below:

Please understand that you need to make sure that the contacts and calendar
you want to recovery should be reside on Exchange side not a local contacts
for outlook personal folder. You need also make sure that the contacts and
calendar folder is import while you export your exchange mailbox to PST
files.

You can refer to the following article to make sure that you have export
all the setting on the mailbox to a PST files.

287456 OL2002: How to Work with Personal Folders Files
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=287456

287070 OL2002: How to Back Up, Restore, or Move Outlook Data
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=287070

If you make sure that all the mailbox setting is export to the PST file and
restore it correctly. Please help gather the information below:

1. Does the issue occur on every user or only occur on some users?
2. From your first reply, it seems only some of the user's appointment
calendar did not work. Can you create a new appointment for those users to
see if you can reproduce the issue or not?
3. Please also make sure that all your domain user use the Exchange mailbox
and they did not store any of their calendar or appointment locally on
personal folder. (On outlook we can also create a personal folder to store
the emails.)

If you use Exchange 2000 backup to restore Exchange 2003 database rather
than import the mailbox individually to each user it will cause a lot of
unexpected issue, it is your best interest to import the PST files to each
user again for repairing the problem.


Hope the above information helpful, if possible you can create a new user
then import the backup of the PST file to see if the issue is still exist
or not?

Thanks for your effort on this issue.



Best regards,

Charles Yang (MSFT)

Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support

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| Hi Charles,
|
| I did not have a backup of Exchange 2003 as this was the first time that
| Exchange 2003 was run. I had upgraded the SBS from 2K to 2003 therefore
was
| using the Exchange 2K backup as a restore of the mailboxes.
|
| I had done a backup of each individual mailbox to pst locally but the IT
| people that were out to help me with this used the backup tape to restore
the
| mailboxes rather than importing the pst files individually as we did not
use
| ExMerge. It was only 30 machines and it wouldn't have taken long to do.
|
| I don't think that these guys knew what they were doing in regards to
| Exchange.
|
| How do I overcome the Calendar issue?
|
| Thanks
|
| Mil
|
| ""Charles Yang [MSFT]"" wrote:
|
| > Hi Mil,
| >
| > Welcome to SBS newsgroup.
| >
| > Issue description:
| > ==============
| >
| > I understand that you encountered problem after you restore your
Exchange
| > 2003 database from a backup on Exchange 2000.
| >
| > Analyzing and suggestions:
| > ================
| >
| > Generally speaking, there are so many differences between Exchange 2003
and
| > Exchange 2000 database; we did not support to recover the database from
| > Exchange 2000 backup to Exchange 2003. You will encounter many
unexpected
| > issues.
| >
| > For your convenience, I would like to give you some information about
the
| > database structure on Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2000.
| >
| > File structure of Exchange 2003 store:
| >
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/WorkingE2k3Stor
| > e/efd74676-3d47-4a70-8e94-88e9acc2e00e.mspx
| >
| > Exchange 2003 backup and restore structure:
| >
| >
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/e
| > xchvss_arch_overview.asp
| >
| > Exchange 2000 backup and restore:
| >
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2000/library/reskit/re
| > sguide/c28back.mspx
| >
| > So it is your best interest to restore from the Exchange 2003 backup,
if
| > you still want to restore from a Exchange 2000 database, you may try to
| > recover it via RSG if your Exchange 2000 on SBS 2000 applied SP3.
| >
| > You can refer to the following article for more information:
| >
| > 824126 How to use Recovery Storage Groups in Exchange Server 2003
| > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=824126
| >
| >
| > For the calendar issue, it should be caused by the database on Exchange
| > database store is corrupt by using the wrong backup.
| >
| > You can try to use the Exchange 2003 disaster recovery method to see if
the
| > issue can be resolved:
| >
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/DROpsGuide/b740
| > dd10-01de-41a7-a186-94ec158976cc.mspx
| >
| >
| >
| > More info:
| > ================
| > On SBS 2003, we use the following documents to backup and restore the
SBS
| > 2003 system including Exchange 2003:
| >
| > Backing Up and Restoring Windows Small Business Server 2003
| >
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/8/bd8e1a40-d202-429a-8eb7-26300d6
| > 2bcc9/BKU_BkupRstr.doc
| >
| > I appreciate your understanding on this issue; please feel free to let
me
| > know the results. I am glad to be of further assistance.
| >
| >
| >
| > Best regards,
| >
| > Charles Yang (MSFT)
| >
| > Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
| >
| > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
| >
| > ======================================================
| > This newsgroup only focuses on SBS technical issues. If you have issues
| > regarding other Microsoft products, you'd better post in the
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| > newsgroups so that they can be resolved in an efficient and timely
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| > You can locate the newsgroup here:
| > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx
| >
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| > please "Reply to Group" so that others may learn and benefit from your
| > issue.
| >
| > Microsoft engineers can only focus on one issue per thread. Although we
| > provide other information for your reference, we recommend you post
| > different incidents in different threads to keep the thread clean. In
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| > so, it will ensure your issues are resolved in a timely manner.
| >
| > For urgent issues, you may want to contact Microsoft CSS directly.
Please
| > check http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers.
| >
| > Any input or comments in this thread are highly appreciated.
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| > | After upgrading a server to SBS 2003, the Exchange was restored from
the
| > 2000
| > | backup. Problem was that the contacts showed blanks in the File As
area
| > of
| > | each Contact and the Calendars did not show appointments. The way
around
| > this
| > | was to restore from the pst that I had saved locally to each machine.
| > |
| > | Can anyone please let me know why this would happen? Is Exchange 2000
| > | different to Exchange 2003 in Small Business server in its database
| > structure?
| > |
| > | Look forward to responses.
| > |
| > | Also, one other issue, not all user's calendar reminders are working.
How
| > | can I fix this?
| > |
| > | Thanks in advance
| > |
| > | Mil
| > |
| >
| >
|

.

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