Moving Exchange

Microsoft Exchange Server provides e-mail, groupware, and calendar services for your organization.

UMove can move the mailbox store (sometimes called the Exchange database) to your new computer. UMove is compatible with Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, and Exchange 2007.

UMove is designed primarily to move Active Directory, and as such operates only on a domain controller. UMove moves Exchange as a courtesy as part of moving AD. It will not move Exchange on a non-domain controller.

To move Exchange use the following procedure:

1. Prepare the computer for Exchange
2. Create a dummy domain
3. Install Exchange
4. Apply the Exchange service pack
5. Move AD and the Exchange database
6. Mount the mailbox database

After you install Exchange, you may notice that your computer will delay an extra 10-15 minutes each time it shuts down. This is normal. See the KB article “Exchange Server 2003 Computer Takes Longer Than You Expect to Shut Down” (Q829361).

Background information

For background information on moving Exchange see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

• How to Move Exchange 2000 to New Hardware and Keep the Same Server Name (Q297289)
• How to Move Exchange 2003 to New Hardware and Keep the Same Server Name (Q822945)

From the KB articles you can gain an appreciation of the complexity of moving Exchange. UMove does all of the steps for you, saving you the time and effort of doing all the steps manually.

For information on Small Business Server see Moving Small Business Server.