Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Deployment and Migration SP1 and SP2

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Moving from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003

9.1 Introduction

Exchange 2000–to–Exchange 2003 migration is a relatively straightforward process and certainly nowhere near as complicated as the migration from Exchange 5.5 to either Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003. Moving from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003 can be achieved in one of two ways: either by performing an in-place upgrade on the Exchange 2000 server or by installing a new Exchange 2003 server in the same administrative group as the Exchange 2000 server and using the Move Mailbox Wizard to move mailboxes onto the new platform. In this chapter, I describe the various processes in some degree of detail, but ultimately the approach that you take is determined by the complexity of your environment ...