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CrossOrg migration warning: Failed to set basic mailbox... - 26.Jul.2007 6:32:26 AM

xray13

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Hi!
Maybe somebody will not see it as a problem, but:
I am doing Exchange/AD migrations between Forests/Orgs. All seems to be ok, except when you do Mailbox move with every user migration starts with "Failed to set basic mailbox information, will retry in 60 seconds". After 60 seconds migration continues and mailbox is migrated OK. BUT, when you are migrating 50K users with mailbox quota 20-30MB this "retry" takes more time than actual migration. Any suggestions?

P.S.
Do not know if that is related, but some users after migration do not have primarysmtpaddress set. To mee it seems random - happens with maybe 5% of users.

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RE: CrossOrg migration warning: Failed to set basic mai... - 3.Aug.2007 3:47:29 AM

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This is also a huge problem for myself as well, as I am in the process of migrating over 20k users and each time this 60second retry comes up, seems to be no way to get rid of it, any suggestions would be very helpful.

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RE: CrossOrg migration warning: Failed to set basic mai... - 3.Aug.2007 11:17:27 AM

xray13

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Hi!
I have some update on this:
Try using -domaincontroller key and putting DC of target domain. Prefferably with GC on it. And even more, looks like you should use DC that is in use by Exchange (first in list). Seemed to help me.
Another thing I found out you can mail enable users before move and use -allowmerge to copy mailboxes...
Did not help me 100%, so I am still investigating...

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RE: CrossOrg migration warning: Failed to set basic mai... - 4.Aug.2007 6:25:04 AM

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I Currently have both source and target dc's mentioned along with GC as well, unfortunately this is making no difference as the 60 sec retry still appears. I have also been using the -AllowMerge option but still the darn thing remains.

If you crack it let me know. I will of course do the same although i only have another 1500 users left to migrate.

Thanks

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RE: CrossOrg migration warning: Failed to set basic mai... - 29.Aug.2007 2:25:03 PM

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Hello Xray13 and Zomig,

How do you import multiple mailboxes in Exchange 2007? I have done a lot of research but can`t find much. I can migrate mailbox to another forest by using the Move-Mailbox cmdlet but i can only move one at a time. It has to be a method to migrate (CrossOrg) multiple mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to 2007 in batches. How do you guys do that? Could you please share your experience?
Thank you very much!

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RE: CrossOrg migration warning: Failed to set basic mai... - 31.Aug.2007 6:37:53 AM

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Hi!
That's easy. You have to have two logons having mailbox access in each ORG.
First of all save source forest credentials in variable.
Like this:
$sourcecredential=get-credential
It will prompt you for source org username/password
Now you can list mailboxes in different ORG.
get-mailbox -domaincontroller sourcedc.sourceorg.com -credential $sourcecredential -database "sourceserver\sourceExDB"
You can use OUs to limit list of mailboxes or just list all maiboxes in source ORG.
Now to move mailboxes you need something like this:
get-mailbox -domaincontroller sourcedc.sourceorg.com -credential $sourcecredential -database "sourceserver\sourceExDB" | move-mailbox -targetdatabase "targetserver\storage group\Database" -sourceforestglobalcatalog sourcedc.sourceorg.com -sourceforestcredential $sourcecredential-validateonly

This will show you what mailboxes can be copied/moved. There are many options on how you actually map mailboxes/users. Check detailed help on move-mailbox command.
Question is about bigger picture - what you are actually doing (domain migration, domain collapse, resource domain for exchange, etc.)

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RE: CrossOrg migration warning: Failed to set basic mai... - 2.Sep.2007 3:23:37 PM

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Hi Raimonds, Thank you very much! I have succesfully moved all mailboxes to Exchange 2007. How did you migrate the public folders though? I can`t find any information, our public folders are not so big fortunately, is there a way that i can export them from 2003 and import them in 2007 or can i migrate them?
Thanks again for your help!

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RE: CrossOrg migration warning: Failed to set basic mai... - 3.Sep.2007 5:05:58 AM

xray13

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Well, it depends on your configuration.
If Ex2k3 and Ex2k7 are in same org you can use standart public folder replication. Search for pfmigrate.vbs on www.microsoft.com or do replication setup manually.
If you have different Orgs then only tool you need is this:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e7a951d7-1559-4f8f-b400-488b0c52430e&displaylang=en

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MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator Exchange 2007
MCITP: Enterprise Administrator Windows 2008
EMC AA
EMC STF

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RE: CrossOrg migration warning: Failed to set basic mai... - 3.Sep.2007 1:22:32 PM

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You were right, it did work! Is there also a way to migrate the Distribution Groups using the Shell? I did try with the AD Migration Tool but it wasn`t really a success. We also have a problem with the Outlook 2000 client, i did migratethem succesfully but if i create new Distribution Groups then these groups are not visible, but i know that Exchange 2007 does not support Outlook 2000 so there is nothing i can do about it i guess!?! Was it easy for you to migrate the distribution groups? Thanks again!

P.S: I also had the 60 seconds delay, could it be a standard behaviour van Exchange when it performs an Cross-Forest migration? I did search for it but i could not find much....

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