Microsoft stopped providing its extended support for Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook 2003 from April 8th 2014. Security patches are no longer provided for the 2003 server. This has lead Exchange Server 2003 to potential security issues for organizations since its open to security attacks. These reasons made many organizations to consider migrating Exchange 2003 to more modern advance solutions, like Exchange 2013.
Scalable and High performance Exchange migration
Exchange Server Migaration to any destination is with multi threading capability with throttling management can make your migration fast and high performance.
Most of the organizations are still using the Exchange 2003.But the Exchange 2003 server is no longer supported and the Microsoft Exchange has changed its functions and architecture. Majority of the users, who were using the 2003 server migrated their old exchange version to more advanced ones like 2013. But the Microsoft does not support direct migration from the old Exchange version to recent Exchange version. Those reasons lead many organizations to consider migrating Exchange 2003 to more modern advance solutions, like as Exchange 2013.
User may like to move old exchange version to newest version of Microsoft’s email. There are many solutions, in that first solution is the “Double hopping Migration”.
First Step: Double Hop Migration
The administrators could not help to directly upgrade Exchange 2003 to 2013.The Exchange server 2003 and 2013 cannot exist in co–existence in Active Directory forest. When the users try to move Microsoft native tools to move e–mail accounts between different Active Directory forests the process is complicated to execute. This reason system engineers recommend splitting process into two steps.
The double hop migration is involves completing migration in two steps:
- Migrate Mailboxes Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010
- Migrate Mailboxes Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013
This method of migration is called “double-hop migration”, in which the obviously doubles of the work required and the risk of the process going askew. It’s also required for some crucial resources, like unoccupied hardware or additional virtual machines. This resource’s only to host the temporary environment before moving it to target location. And this technique brings with double risks and the migration work between the two subsequent versions. This process must be planned and done with utmost care, to minimize the down-time of the exchange mail servers.
Second Step: Export / Import PST
This PST export or import operations are helpful to migrate the entire mailbox data from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 easily without involving technical aspects much. This process needs one time export Exchange 2003 mailbox data (OST) into PST format or EDB to PST format, and then importing that PST files into Exchange 2013. The manual export/import operation involves following steps.
Steps to import/export PST file:
- Set the administrator rights to perform the operation.
- And the Execution of two simple Exchange Management powerShell cmdlets.
First one is New-MailboxExportRequest, and second one is Get-MailboxExportRequest. - Create target mailboxes in Exchange 2013.
- Manual addition of the legacyExchangeDN X.500 address added into each re-imported mailbox as proxy address in target location.
- Importing all exported mailboxes PST file to Exchange 2013.
Above mentioned process is very difficult to execute. And in some cases user may have to stop the manual import/export process, and need to run any powershell-based commands. So for more effective faster export, you can use the third party conversion tool “EdbMails EDB to PST Converter Tool”. This software works in offline mode and also converts all mailboxes to PST format, or migrates to live Exchange server, or migrate to office 365. EDB to PST converter tool converts mailbox, contact, calendar, note, task etc. EDB Recovery Tool also recovers permanently deleted items without any data loss. You can try the EdbMails Free Trail Version of the software. In the Free Trail version, user can export upto 30 items in each and every folder.
Scalable and High performance Exchange migration
Exchange Server Migaration to any destination is with multi threading capability with throttling management can make your migration fast and high performance.
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