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DaleHarrison -> Exchange 2000 installation help needed please (25.Nov.2005 2:26:56 PM)
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OK, i'll try to start from the begining as I have a feeling i'm going to need a lot of explaining and help here.
I have an old and slowly degenerating server with windows server 2000 installed. On this we have Exchange 5.5 installed as our mail server.
We have bought a lovely new much more powerful server which is installed with server 2000 and is implimented into our domain.
My objective is to install Exchange 2000 on this machine, and remove the old machine from the network completely without loosing any data.
On our existing 5.5 server (called server A from now on) we have only a few mail boxes (our company domain is nice and small) and a few more public folders which we NEED to keep.
So far I have installed Exchange 2000 (called server B from now on) and it seems that the installation was successful. When I installed it I have added to the existing 5.5 site (I hope) and when I load out the Admin program on server A (E5.5) I can see the new Server B (E2K)
I have created a couple of test public folders to replicate accross to the new installation, and it seemed to take ages, but if I navigate to the Public Folder Inatances on the Exchange System Manager I can see the Test public folder there.
I have since created a new TestUser account on the domain with a mailbox that is held on the new server, I can logon to the mailbox but I cannot see the Test public folder that was replicated accross (or the couple of others I have e.g. 'Nonsence')
The other issue I have is that I can send mail from my new Server B (E2K) to Server A (E5.5) but not vice versa. I don't know why this is! I added a new MX record onto my DNS server for my new Server B (E2K) but that doesn't help (should I have done this?)
I'm basically very new to this Exchange stuff and obviously need all the help I can get, especially before I even thing about attempting to move all the proper mailboxes and proper public folders accross!
So I guess I need to make sure I can:
A: see public folders that I have replicated accross with my test account
B: send and recieve internal and external mail from the new server to the old server etc
One other thing, I have logged onto an Outlook client with my test user (called 'testuser') and I can see a few of the public folders that were on the old server A (E5.5) but they don't contain data (each time I click on them to try to view data it tells me I am unable to display the folder. Network problems are preventing connection to the Microsoft Exchange computer .
If I create a 'new' folder in one of the public folders that I cannot see inside I have access to it, and the strange thing is that a Outlook client attached to the Server A (E5.5) can also see and access this new folder.
Something is wrong here! HELP! :( :( :(
THanks so much in advance
Dale
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