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A little over a year ago, I delivered a Live Technet Briefing on the above subject. It was well received and generated lots of happy comments from customers. I have had a couple of questions in the past few days about this so I have decided to re-post the information.

Here are the basic steps that need to be performed –

Backup Windows

Backup Exchange

Determine Upgrade/Migration Method

Plan your installation/migration

Reduce amount of Exchange 5.5 data to be migrated

Create AD Environment

Establish Trust relationships

Grant appropriate permissions in Exchange 5.5 to allow data migration

Use the Exchange Deployment Tools to verify configuration

Use the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) to migrate user objects

Install/Configure the Active Directory Connector to Sync Exchange 5.5 ß à AD

Use the Exchange Deployment Tools to install Exchange 2003

Use PFMIGRATE to migrate Public Folders

Use the Move Mailbox Wizard to move Mailboxes to Exchange 2003

Clean up/Decommission Exchange 5.5 Install

For more detailed information –

The content for the live session comes from our most excellent TechNet site –

Upgrading Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003

The live session has also been presented as a 3 part webcast series which has been archived online –

            Part 1               Part 2               Part 3

In addtion, there are some revised articles, tools, and whitepapers that should be read —