Journal of a Windows Admin http://decrypters.org/blog Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:18:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 How to move a exchange mailbox from exchange 2010 to exchange 2003 http://decrypters.org/blog/?p=8 http://decrypters.org/blog/?p=8#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 02:35:47 +0000 admin http://decrypters.org/blog/?p=8 Moving an exchange mailbox from exchange 2003 to 2010 is very common and is the normal migration path. There are plenty of documentation available on Microsoft sites. But what if for some reason , you need to move the mailbox back from 2010 to 2003? In my scenario, it is because RIM had blocked the availability of BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express Edition in India due to Regulatory measures. My Existing BlackBerry Professional Server does not support Exchange 2010 , so had to move the BB users back to 2003.

To move a mailbox from 2010 to 2003 exchange

  1. Open PowerShell modules on exchange 2010 , and wait for all exchange cmdlets to load.
  2. Change directory to “scripts” folder within exchange installation directory.
  3. Run .\MoveMailbox.ps1 -identity “username” -TargetDatabase “targetdbname”
  4. The target database  is the name of the database on exchange 2003 in our case. This should start the move.
  5. If you are not sure about the target database name to specify, run Get-MailboxDatabase -Server 2003servername
  6. The above command will list all the database running on 2003 exchange server.

hope this was helpful. Especially to all those who are not comfortable with powershell.

cheers

 

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