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Acquisition of 2 companies running Lotus Domino 6.5

We have 2 Domino 6.5 Servers running at 2 different locations.  Both have different Domino Directory, different Domains. We need to consolidate the two servers in one; that every user has access his/her old mails as well. Is that possible that we move all the mailboxes of one server to another. How we can cross-certify the 2 different Domino directories and administrate from a single location.
Please advise, I am not an expert of Domino environment, having knowledge of different Messaging and Mailing Solutions, like Exchange, Mailer-Daemon, Postfix and Sendmail. So please also suggest the reading material in this regard.
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Aatif Ali
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Lotus Notes and Domino 7 Enterprise Upgrade Best Practices
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Dear Experts,

Many many thanks for your prestigious input. As far the comments added by our Guru Qwaletee; That is the simple task for you guys but as I mentioned that I am not an expert with Domino. Can any one explain me the big bang move step by step

we'll typically do the initial cross-cert (Done)
Servers are accessible to each other and to users across both companies (How to Check)
The big mang move consists of shutting down the "dead" domain's servers (Understand+Done)
Moving the mail files physically over to the new location (Understand+Done)
Moving the person documents from the dead address book to the live one (Can't Understand + How)
Modifying the domain name in the person documents. (Understand + How)
You can worry about recertification later (Understand + How I re-certify the migrated users)

Hope u understand what i wana ask

TO copy the names ovver, just open both address books in your Notes client ( he dead one can be a local replica or copy ), and select from the old, and copy to the new. ( Paste )  Ctrl-c and Ctrl-V work fine.

You will then need to do the Domain  Modification, and any other minor changes to get it to work correcty.
Test with a single user first.

I hope this helps !

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Servers are accessible to each other -- use the console command TRACE Servername/Org

To check if a user can access it, have the user do the trace command through File -> Preferences -> User Preferences ... Ports... Trace

Note: Users may have to create a connection document first, in their own names.nsf (Contacts)

Moving person docs -- as SysExpert explained

Modifying domain name -- after moving the person document, just edit it.  There's a field with the domain name, just change it. If there are a lot of them, it IS possible to automate.

We'll tralk about recertification after everything is working with mixed certificates.
Dear Expert,
Thanks to All. I really appreciate your efforts. Your comments and suggestion really helps me a lot. But the actual problem solved with the help of local guy who demonstrate all the process you mentioned in your comments.
So I think this is the time to close the above question bcoz the problem has been solved. But I will give the points to qwaletee, he deserve for that.
Thanks All :) I will come again with a new problem and hope that you guys will help me as you did in past