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Decomission old Lotus Notes server
The company I am working for aquired another company in the past. All of their domain was merged into our domain (prior to my employment here).
All of the services off the merged companies domain have been migrated into our domain. All Except for an old Lotus Notes server (Which I know nothing about Lotus notes).
I would like to raise our domain level to 2008 R2 and decomission the 2003 DC's.
Currently there are 5 DC's :
* Svr 2003 - PDC
* Svr 2003 - secondary 2003 DC
* Svr 2003 - DC drom the merged domain
* Svr 2008 R2 - Primary 2008 R2 DC
* Svr 2008 R2 - Secondary 2008 R2 DC.
The problem I have is that if I power off the DC from the merged domain (3rd in the list above), Lotus notes stops working. And obviously I cannot raise my domain level without decomissioning the 2003 DCs.
The DC from the merged domain doesn't actually host the merged domain name. It no longer exists. It only hosts the current domain name. The only reference to the old domain name is in DNS forward lookup zone.
I assume the only thing stopping me from decommissioning the merged domain DC is that I would need to change references to hostnames etc on the Lotus notes server.
However, as mentioned. I have no idea how Lotus notes works.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ideally I would like to be able to export all mailboxes off Lotus Notes and import into Exchange 2010.
All of the services off the merged companies domain have been migrated into our domain. All Except for an old Lotus Notes server (Which I know nothing about Lotus notes).
I would like to raise our domain level to 2008 R2 and decomission the 2003 DC's.
Currently there are 5 DC's :
* Svr 2003 - PDC
* Svr 2003 - secondary 2003 DC
* Svr 2003 - DC drom the merged domain
* Svr 2008 R2 - Primary 2008 R2 DC
* Svr 2008 R2 - Secondary 2008 R2 DC.
The problem I have is that if I power off the DC from the merged domain (3rd in the list above), Lotus notes stops working. And obviously I cannot raise my domain level without decomissioning the 2003 DCs.
The DC from the merged domain doesn't actually host the merged domain name. It no longer exists. It only hosts the current domain name. The only reference to the old domain name is in DNS forward lookup zone.
I assume the only thing stopping me from decommissioning the merged domain DC is that I would need to change references to hostnames etc on the Lotus notes server.
However, as mentioned. I have no idea how Lotus notes works.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ideally I would like to be able to export all mailboxes off Lotus Notes and import into Exchange 2010.
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As I said (but I may not have been explicit enough): "if they use other [types of] databases, you'd better go for a coexistence option between Notes and Exchange".
Meaning: it is almost impossible for a non-Notes expert to migrate non-mail databases with the flick of a switch. It might cost you a bundle. Often, the cheapest solution is to keep the Domino server running, it happens all the time...
Meaning: it is almost impossible for a non-Notes expert to migrate non-mail databases with the flick of a switch. It might cost you a bundle. Often, the cheapest solution is to keep the Domino server running, it happens all the time...
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However there are also a few databases that one of our Legacy apps uses.
I better contact the vendor of the app for assistance migrating that to SQL.