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Best way to migrate from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011, primarily mail?

We are going to migrate from our SBS 2003 server to a newer SBS 2011 server and we are trying to determine the best way to move the mail.  We only have a couple of specific applications that are no problem to move. But we are curious about methods for moving the users email, or the email database?
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Reading/studying  your suggestions.....   i'm curious, the question came up,  if the number of users is small, and you know there are issues with the user accounts and other things on the old server....  what is the opinion on just exporting individual mailboxes to a portable drive. Setup the new server and add the workstations, and then just import the mail into their new mailbox. We would have a clean active directory then, none of the issues from the old server or profiles, and just a clean basic install of SBS 2011....  thoughts?
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We found out that there were some issues with the AD on the old server and didn't want to have to troubleshoot those our bring them forward onto the new server , and a few other issues on the existing network that made new workstation profiles a desireable thing - So we backed up each workstation and export mailboxes to a pst file for each, joined the new network and put everything back. We had some issues with older systems needing updates to connect to the new server, but it went fairly well and time consuming. The new network is up and running good now. I'm sure the migration wizards would have worked fine as well.Sorry for the delay.