Migration between two forests

I currently have two active directory forests, each seperate and distinct.
One runs solely to server an exchange 2000 server, the second is a windows
2003 domain in a seperate forest. I am trying to migrate the users from the
exchange 2000 server to the new 2003 domain in the new forest. I am using
exmerge to migrate user mail between the two sites, but I have two problems:
1) Folder permissions do not copy
2) When a user opens outlook 2003 they are prompted that exchange is in
recovery mode and I have to go through the process of resetting the .ost
file.

Is there a better way to do this or is this my only option.

Any help or suggestions, would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Robert J. Ellison
Senior Technical Analyst
CTM Services
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford

yourdisplayname
Wed Aug 03 08:39:21 CDT 2005

Hello Robert,

I had a kind of this problem, but were using Exchange migration wizard. The
second proble, occurs because of "Cached Mode". This must be turned off.
Delete and disabld the offline files. You can migrate the mailbox.

You can also create a new outlook profile.

The best option is to use the parameter : "mailmig /m" to migrate the mailbox.
Before starting outlook 2003 run the util : "exprofre\exprofre.exe
/targetgc=<GlobalCatalog Servername> /v /n"


The latter works with cached mode enabled.

regards
Jeroen Lanters
Certified Infra Engineer.
Capgemini Netherlands.

"Robert J. Ellison" wrote:

> I currently have two active directory forests, each seperate and distinct.
> One runs solely to server an exchange 2000 server, the second is a windows
> 2003 domain in a seperate forest. I am trying to migrate the users from the
> exchange 2000 server to the new 2003 domain in the new forest. I am using
> exmerge to migrate user mail between the two sites, but I have two problems:
> 1) Folder permissions do not copy
> 2) When a user opens outlook 2003 they are prompted that exchange is in
> recovery mode and I have to go through the process of resetting the .ost
> file.
>
> Is there a better way to do this or is this my only option.
>
> Any help or suggestions, would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Robert J. Ellison
> Senior Technical Analyst
> CTM Services
> University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
>
>
>