Start Free Trial

asked on

move mailbox between two domains in a tree

I have 2010exchange and dc 'abc.com' installed in a single server. I have one more dc 'xyz.com' in another server in the same network. Xyz dc is used only for login.

now I want to move all the mailboxes in exchange server2010 i.e.abc.com to xyz.com

which is the best way we can do this.

the exchange servers are per organization not per domain so there is nothing to move in you case unless you mean you want to change their email address from @abc.com to @xyx.com

ASKER

no I have 2 DCs in the network,
one dc abc.com and exchange 2010 is recently installed in the same hardware. I want only one dc in the network. I want only xyz.com domain

Exchange is configured in abc.com

everybody is logging to xyz domain where as exchange is configured in abc.com domain

You could use this tool. Use it to extract the user's mail and then import into new server. Last time I used it it exported the mail as PST files.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=429163ec-dcdf-47dc-96da-1c12d67327d5&displaylang=en

ASKER

This is for exch2003 I doubt

secondly to do this we need to have exch in both domains. As of now I have only one exchange in abc.com domain

what do you want to do ???
you want to change the domain of the server or what ?

ASKER

my problem is the second dc is only for exchange. That too installed in the same hardware of exchange2010. I want only one dc in the network. How I can remove the dc in exchange?

What is the easiest way to this

ASKER

This may be a stupid question just asking as EE experts may be having workaround for it.
How can I make the exchange working with the other domain?

at least now I understand what you want

what is the first domain that was installed the one holding exchange or the other one

ASKER

first installed is xyz.com domain but the one holding exchange is abc.com that is in the same hardware of exchange2010. Abc.com installed when installing exchange

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

membership

This solution is only available to members.

To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.

Start Free Trial

ASKER

Many thanks for ur reply.
but I want a way that it should be done without interrupting mail flow.

How this can be done?
Your help is highly appreciated

this will not interrupt the mail flow if you are careful however it is a long and tedious process

ASKER

In this case if I move a mailbox named 'peter' from the old exchange server to new. What about the user in the old dc with same name 'peter'.

Bcuz as of now both the dcs are having almost same users.
Please explain about the mailbox movement

you mean you actually have your users twice once in each domain ?

ASKER

xyz.com is for login to domain and flie securty

abc.com is only for exchange

ASKER

all users have one username in xyz.com domain
all users email address is created in abc.com domain.

I know this is not a supported scenario. I joined in this company 3 days back. My manager told me find out what are the problems/mistakes in the network. As a start I found 2 domains in the network one for login and one for email

many thanks for time spent for me

you are really not answering the question in the ad of the domain of the exchange server do you have any users created or only the exchange server is there and just created mailboxes for the users in the xyz.com domain ?

ASKER

all users having one username in abc.com for mailboxes

and

all users having one username in xyz.com to login to the pc as all the pcs in the network is in xyz.com domain

SOLUTION

membership

This solution is only available to members.

To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.

Start Free Trial

ASKER

you mean I will delete the user from active directory of abc.com and and reconnect the mailbox to the same user in xyz.com?

ASKER

can you explain please how to reconnect the mailbox

http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/tutorial/Deleting-and-reconnecting-Exchange-Server-2007-mailboxes

ASKER

I removed one mailbox but I could not reconnect as the other domain user is not listing in the popup window.

Do I have to make a trust between domains

What ? They are not in the same forest?

ASKER

Yes they are in the same forest I guess.

If they are in the same forest you shld be able to do it. Can u share a s reenshot?

ASKER

Here is the screenshot.

Please let me know what is wrong

Thanks

reconnect.docx

please open active directory domains and trusts do both domains show up there?

ASKER

how to make that to show both domains there.

Now showing only one domain

ASKER

BTW I made trust between domains

ASKER

Both the domains are not listing ADDT, only one domain is listing.

Please help to list both the domains in ADDT

i can't help, they are 2 different forests totally

you will need to export to PST and create a new exchange in the other organization and import them back

ASKER

Anyway we can connect the outlook to the newly created emails in the new domain.

Many thanks for your tiime spent

your help is appreciated to connect outlook to the new exchange

ASKER

Anyway we can connect the outlook to the newly created emails in the new domain?

Many thanks for your tiime spent

your help is appreciated to connect outlook to the new exchange

ASKER

Can u help reging my last post #35126757

when you create new mailboxes you will create for them new outlook profiles

the old emails will be on PST and you can import them back

ASKER

Will this help

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/08/10/455779.aspx

sure it will if you have a lot of users better follow this method

ASKER

Then I will start a new question now please help me to do that.

ASKER

If I do this will outlook connect automatically to the new mailbox?

Honestly I can't help a lot with that one sorry

ASKER

No problem at all my friend.