ouch. Is there an easy way to do this?
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We have just migrated from Exchange 5.5 to 2003 Enterprise. Ever since then, when opening Outlook, all users get a notification window that says "Exchange is currently in recovery mode. You can either connect to your Exchange server using the network, work offline, or cancel this login". Once the user clicks on "Connect", Outlook opens correctly and it communicates with the server with no further problems. I would like to now why this notification is coming up and what I can do to stop it.
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If it did work, then its the way data was moved from 5.5 to 2k3. I prefer to export all the user's data to pst, and then import it back in to the new system. This avoids lots of issues but it isn't easy. I just migrated over 5,000 users and thank a million for WMI and VBS! made it too easy.
New profiles aren't so bad. You can export the Rules settings and copy NK2 file for each user and much of what they see will be the same. With some research, you may be able to reconnect their personnal psts by script, but the password protected ones will cause issue. No way that I know of that can silently do all the work without the users noticing anything other than the error is gone.
I'm rabbling on, too much beer! Didn't answer your easy way to do this. could be, unless there are tons of users, best to do it one on one with the helpdesk. That way, everyone understands that it was necessary and doesn't bad mouth you or can say that their mail got lost. I know that you have at least 1-2 that will scream bloody murder if their hands are not held through this.
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by: darkstar3dPosted on 2007-03-05 at 09:19:24ID: 18655762
Everyone will need to create new mail profiles.