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Migrating from Windows server 2003 with MS Exchange to Windows server 2012 Stand with MS Exchange

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I am planning on migrating a Windows server 2003 SBS server with MS Exchange 2003/ Active directory to a new server running Server 2012 standard with MS Exchange 2013/Active Directory.

Any thoughts on how to accomplish this project as smoothly as possible ?

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Amit

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Cliff Galiher

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Teavana

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Thank you both for responding.

I did not start the migration process as yet. I am currently doing the planning steps and checking the different application and OS to make sure that they are compatible.

The environment that I will be migrating only has 25 users so getting (paying) a second server may not be accepted.

The current server is s virtual server and the new server will be a virtual VMware machine.

Since I cannot migrate from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013. I will just install Exchange 2010 SP3 on the Windows server 2012 machine.

I have migrated SBS 2003 to server 2008 R2 before and Exchange 2010 SP2.

If there any gotchas that I should look out for ? Is the migration steps/process the as the for SBS 2003 to server 2012 pretty much the same ?

Thanks

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Simon Butler (Sembee)

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Teavana

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Thank you all for your help.