XADM: How Move Server Wizard Handles Duplicate E-Mail Addresses

• Microsoft Exchange Server, version 5.5

SUMMARY

The Microsoft Exchange Server Move Server Wizard has been designed to resolve duplicate e-mail addresses.

For example, suppose there is an account called Administrator in Container A on the server to be moved. Another account called Administrator is in Container B on the destination server. Both Administrator accounts have the same SMTP address. Run the Move Server Wizard to merge the servers together into the same site. The wizard does not prompt you that there is a duplicate SMTP address.

The wizard will only check and prompt the wizard administrator for duplicate users that have the same Distinguished Name (DN) (that is, /o=orginization name/ou=site name/cn=container name/cn=user name). Because the users are in different containers, the DN is different. Therefore, no prompt occurs.

The ProxyFixup.csv file will be populated with any changes that will be made to duplicate e-mail addresses (for example, SMTP). In addition to creating the ProxyFixup.csv file for every duplicate e-mail address, the Move Server Wizard will also report (or flag) the number of duplicates that are found in the pre-report, so that the administrator can resolve these before the move.

If you are merging in from a different organization, the Move Server Wizard will create the proxy addresses using the site addressing defined in the new site. It will always create a unique proxy.

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Keywords : MoveSvr
Version : WINNT:5.5
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo