Moving from one Exchange Server to another...

[Guest]

Hi,

We have just installed a new Exchange 2003 Server to replace an old Exchange
2000 Server. All the mailboxes have been moved to the new server and the old
one has remained switched off ever since. In order to get things up and
running we set the IP address of the new server to 10.0.0.8 and also added
10.0.0.2,( the IP address of the old server) until such times as we could get
our Internet service provider who controls our routers, mail etc to change
the relevant settings to 10.0.0.8 for incoming mail. Now that that is done we
tried removing the 10.0.0.2 address but found that the mail clients (Outlook
2003) could not connect. When I checked the client profiles I found that they
were still pointing to the old Exchange Server and were only working due to
the old IP address being in place, i.e. the exchange server name resolving to
the IP address now attached to the new server. If I change the profile to
point to the new server then everything works fine. The question is, should
the mail clients automaticlly have picked up the new server for the AD or do
I need to reconfigure on each users profile?

Thanks

Dave

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

If you had left the old server running, all your Outlook clients would have
picked up the new server the first time they logged into the moved
mailboxes. Since the old server was shut off, the clients never picked up
the change. There are a number of steps that must be taken when the first
server in an Exchange site is removed:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/152959/en-us
XADM: How to Remove the First Exchange Server in a Site
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307917/en-us
How to remove the first Exchange 2000 Server computer from the site
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/152960/en-us
Reassigning site roles after removing the first server in an Exchange site

Hal
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