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Outsourced Mail Hosting to Exchange 2007 - 28.Aug.2008 12:50:49 AM

garrett_j17

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Hello All,

My company currently has its email outsourced with a hosting company. We are now entertaining the thought of hosting our own mailboxes.

We would like to keep the same domain name and basically keep all our existing email addresses.

I've done some administration in Exchange 2007 & 2003 but i'm not sure how I'll get to the point of hosting the mailboxes that are currently being outsourced.

I'm guessing that I would have to have my MX record point to my company's pulic IP address rather than that of the of the hosting company. And from here once I have the actuall accounts created and the new MX record is replicated through internet, i'll be good.

Is this the right approach in a nutshell? Also any suggestions on moving mail from the existing mailboxes to the new mailboxes?

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RE: Outsourced Mail Hosting to Exchange 2007 - 29.Aug.2008 6:56:45 AM

Sembee

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Build the new server first and test it.
That includes all email addresses, mail accounts etc.
Then change the MX records, preferably on a Friday afternoon.
Come Monday morning everything should have propagated and you can look at extracting data out of the existing solution and importing it in to the new solution. For a small number of users the easiest way to do this is change the delivery location from Mailbox to PST file, then wait while Outlook pulls everything out. Once everything is out, create a new Outlook profile to point to the new Exchange server, with the delivery location set as Mailbox. Do NOT enable cached mode.
Import the contents of the PST file in to Outlook using the import wizard. By not having cached mode enabled it will send the content straight in to Exchange, which is the quickest way. Once the import is complete, enable cached mode.
Use OWA on the existing provider to check if email is still going in.

If you are prepared to risk no backups then you could make the delivery location prior to the change, which will save time, but expose the email to a PST file, which can get corrupt quite easily and is not supported being accessed over a network.

Simon.

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