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move mailboxes from one domain to another?

what are some ways to move a handful (30?) mailboxes to a existing exchange org on a completly different domain.
Site A = my domain, seperate physical site
Site B = seperate domain, seperate location (to be demoted and rebuilt as part of our domain)

due to the small amount of use i think it makes more sense to move the mailboxes to our site on an existing exchange server.
Recreate all users accounts. then somehow re-attach the mailboxes to the new user accounts.

Please provide ideas (maybe multiple).

Thanks

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thanks.
Site a and B will have a hardware VPN over internet connection.
curretnly site B connects to root domain (which will disapear) through and ISA server VPN.
I will take the ISA offline... after that admin does what I need with the mailboxes.

I just need a plan.

does exmerge automate an entire group.. or am i going to have to run it against each user?
oncei bring it into my server using exmerge, how do i connect it to a new user account? (if i dont export AD users, just start fresh)

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its only 30 users at most.. i can just hand select them?
its not a big deal. as long as i can manually match them up. the user name convention will be different.

example john Doe

there jdoe@domain
ours john.doe@domain

so the names may not match up.
thnere is going to be manual input for all the alias differences too..

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not abandoned. still in progress..

I am going to do this next week.. this was all the info i needed.. so ill just close it.

thanks everyone.