Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Deployment Guide- P63 ppt

Consolidating Sites in Exchange 2003 Site consolidation entails moving Microsoft® Exchange out of remote sites and into a larger central site and allowing users in remote offices to acc

Before You Begin

Before you perform the procedure in this topic, be aware that the

procedure contains information about editing the registry

Caution:

Incorrectly editing the registry can cause serious problems that may

require you to reinstall your operating system Problems resulting from editing the registry incorrectly may not be able to be resolved Before editing the registry, back up any valuable data

Procedure

To enable an SMTP virtual server to accept message extended properties sent anonymously

1 Start Registry Editor

2 Navigate to

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SMTPSVC\XEXCH50

3 Right-click XEXCH50, select New, and then click Key

4 Type the number of the SMTP virtual server instance as the key

value For example, the default SMTP virtual server instance is 1,

while the second SMTP virtual server created on a server is 2

5 Right-click the key you just created, point to New, and click

DWORD Value

6 In the details pane, type Exch50AuthCheckEnabled for the value

name By default, the value data is 0, which indicates that the

extended message properties are transmitted when mail is sent

anonymously

For More Information

For information about how to edit the registry, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 256986, "Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry" (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=3052&kbid=256986)

Consolidating Sites in Exchange 2003

Site consolidation entails moving Microsoft® Exchange out of remote sites and into a larger central site and allowing users in remote offices to access their mailboxes and public folders over the network The main

justifications for site consolidation are to make the Exchange Server 2003 topology simpler and to make Exchange more cost-effective to

administer

If your organization contains servers running Exchange Server 5.5, the site consolidation process requires additional tools to ensure that

mailboxes, distribution lists, recipients, and public folders are moved

properly and with the least disruption in service The goal is to ensure that after users and Exchange data are moved to the central site, mail

continues to flow properly There are several new tools and features in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) that help with the site consolidation process

This topic discusses the steps you should take to ensure that your

environment is ready for site consolidation After you perform these steps, you can use the Exchange Server Deployment Tools to begin the site consolidation process For more information about planning your

Exchange 2003 site consolidation, see "Planning for Site Consolidation"

in the guide Planning an Exchange Server 2003 Messaging System

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=21766)

Exchange Server Deployment Tools

For complete instructions about how to consolidate your sites, download the latest Exchange Server Deployment Tools, available from the

Downloads for Exchange 2003 Web site

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=25097) The SP1 version of the Exchange Server Deployment Tools contains information and tools that help you during your site consolidation process

The procedures referenced in this topic guide you through the processes you must complete before you use the Exchange Server Deployment Tools

Site Consolidation Tools

During site consolidation, many mailboxes, distribution lists, contacts, and public folders may need to be moved across administrative groups In addition, the legacy Exchange distinguished name (legacyExchangeDN) for an object changes after the object moves across administrative

groups, which affects the services that depend on this attribute The

following Exchange 2003 SP1 features and tools address these

concerns:

 Move Mailbox Wizard in Exchange 2003 SP1

 Exchange Profile Update tool (Exprofre.exe)

 Public Folder Migration tool (PFMigrate)

 Object Rehome tool

Move Mailbox Wizard in Exchange 2003 SP1

The Exchange 2003 SP1 version of the Move Mailbox Wizard gives you the option to move mailboxes across administrative groups If your

Exchange organization is in mixed mode, by default, Exchange 2003 displays one administrative group and one routing group for each

Exchange 5.5 site Previous to Exchange 2003 SP1, if your organization contained Exchange 5.5 servers, you could move mailboxes only within the same administrative group This limitation meant that you could not easily consolidate remote Exchange 5.5 sites into a central Exchange site

In Exchange 2003 SP1, you can move mailboxes across administrative groups by using either the Move Mailbox Wizard in Exchange System Manager or the Exchange Task Wizard in Active Directory Users and Computers

Important:

When moving mailboxes from the remote site to the central site during your site consolidation process, it is recommended that you have a

minimum bandwidth speed of 256 kilobits per second (Kbps) Mailbox moves may fail if the bandwidth speed is too slow Also, at slow

bandwidth speeds, connections to servers in the remote site might be blocked due to the network traffic that is generated by moving

mailboxes

Moving Exchange Mailboxes

After backing up your mailbox data, you can move your mailboxes across administrative groups For more information about moving your

mailboxes, see the SP1 version of the Exchange Server Deployment Tools

Exchange Profile Update Tool

The Exchange Profile Update tool (Exprofre.exe) is a stand-alone

executable file that automatically updates users' Microsoft Office

Outlook® profiles, thereby allowing users to log onto their relocated

mailboxes after the mailboxes have been moved across Exchange

organizations or administrative groups To reflect the new information,

you must run Exprofre.exe on each client computer to update the default Outlook profile It is recommended that you use a logon script to run this tool

Download the Exchange Profile Update tool from the Downloads for

Exchange 2003 Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=25097)

The Exchange Profile Update tool is supported when used in conjunction with the following operating systems and applications:

 Microsoft Windows® 2000 (all editions)

 Microsoft Windows XP (all editions)

 Windows Server™ 2003 (all editions)

 Outlook 2003 and all earlier versions of Outlook

Note:

Exprofre.exe does not run if Outlook or another MAPI application is

running on a client computer A warning appears stating that Outlook must be closed to run the tool

Exprofre.exe uses information from Microsoft Active Directory® directory services and the current default Outlook profiles to perform the following steps:

 Back up the default profile

 Look for an X.500 e-mail address that indicates that the mailbox has been moved

 Update the default profile with the new user and server properties

 Reconfigure the default profile with the new RPC/HTTP front-end

server name

 Clear the user's nickname file

 If the version of Outlook is earlier than Outlook 2003, delete or rename the offline folder store (.ost) file

 Delete or rename the Favorites (.fav or xml) file

Note:

Exprofre.exe updates only the default profile Exprofre.exe does not

create new profiles; it only modifies existing profiles

If the tool does not complete successfully, Exprofre.exe creates a backup profile before it modifies the default profile The backup profile name

consists of the old profile name with "backup" added to the end For

example, if the default profile name is "Ted Bremer," the backup profile name is "Ted Bremer backup." If it is necessary to revert to the backup profile, you must ensure that any file name extensions that have been changed are changed back to their original extension and, if necessary, that the file name matches the backup profile name For example, when the tool creates the backup profile, it renames Ted Bremer's Favorites file

to "Ted Bremer.exprofre." To revert to Ted Bremer's backup profile, you must change the extension of the Favorites file back to fav and the name

of the file to "Ted Bremer backup.fav" to match the backup profile name

Using the Exchange Profile Update Tool

Run Exprofre.exe after you move mailboxes from one Exchange

organization to another or from one administrative group to another You can use a logon script or group policy to run the tool for Outlook users

Note:

It is recommended that you use a logon script to run Exprofre.exe so that users' Outlook profiles are updated when they first log on after the mailbox move For sample commands, see "Sample Command for

Moves Across Exchange Organizations" and "Sample Command for

Moves Across Administrative Groups" later in this topic

Table 1 describes the options that are available whether you run

exprofre.exe from a command prompt or from within a script, such as from the following script example:

exprofre.exe [/?] [/targetgc=<global catalog server>] [/logfile=<path\filename>] [/v] [/f] [/a] [/r] [/o] [/p=<RPC over HTTP Proxy server>] [/n] [/s] [/q]

Table 1 Exprofre.exe command options