Re: SBS Migration - User Contacts

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archive only "exports" the excess afaik. Exporting out the entire mail folder or using exmerge would be better.

John Revay wrote:
Larry - Please see below -


"Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(no spam)@mis-wizards.com> wrote in message news:eDquN3KqHHA.4032@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ok, now that we know that you still have the orginal server can you confirm
that:

1. All the user data was kept in the exchange server mail box and contact
list. If the users contact list was in a .pst file you will have to export
that as well.

John - HUM - all mail /calendar was stored on server - OST on Notebooks
Before I started migration - I "Archived" top of each users Mail box ( I thought this would have exported their contacts as well - it was not until I opened PSTs on new profile that I saw no Contacts

2. That we are not considering Public Folders here.


John - Yes No Public folders


3. That before you moved the users to the new server you exported each
users data to .pst files by opening outlook, selecting file, export then
selecting the exchange mailbox and ticking "include sub folders".

That should have moved all the user's data into a .pst file that you could
then import back once you got the new server in place.


John - I did a archive vs export


Note there are other ways to do this.

As for the the discussion about import/export vs. file open, this now seems
to be a problem of "onced burned twice shy". I have done it hundreds of
times without error, others claim that they will never do it again. YMMV!



John - I think I have read threads that suggested I can not import or move messages back from PST up to new server - corruption etc. I was not expecting this to be a problem - what do most users do then - just leave old mail in PSTs - accessable via outlook only?
Larry


"John Revay" <johnrevay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We have whole server - running on different network - same office location


"Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}" <sme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So what have you got of the Old SBS 2K ?
Whole Server ?
Server Image ?
Full Backup ?
Offline backup of Exchange DataStore ?

What have we got to work with here ?

--
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}


"John Revay" <johnrevay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello I am completeing a SBS2K to SBS2K3 migration

In this regards, I ran the archiving utility within outlook - moving
data from old server to PST.

My thought was that I would be copying all data - email, contacts,
calendar etc.

I was surprised that after I migrated users...and I opened these PSTs I
did not find any contact records - just email and calendar items

Can someone please help me as to how I can recover contacts that users
had stored in the old server?

If I recover these - can I import back into exchange on SBS2K3 box?


Also one last time - I think I read several threads that suggested we
SHOULD NOT import messages back in to the new exchange






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