Order of steps to use - moving archives and mailboxes

[GertjanA]

Hello all,

We're doing the following:

Have setup an all-in-one EV-server (storage and indexing). Have setup a new exchangeserver, targeted by the new EV-server (same site as others) We're going to run a test with Virtual Vault. What I am doing is the following:

1 - move archives of users participating in test to new vault server (new store)

2 - When move succesfull (...) move mailbox to new exchange server

3 - when move mailbox succesfull, add user to new AD-group used for provisioning

4 - run provisioning (which overrides the store and index to point to the new store and indexserver)

5 - sync mailboxes

Is this the correct order? I'd like to verify that these steps are in the correct order.

thx as always, Gertjan

[Jason_G]

You may find the attached document useful..

Moving mailbox archives between sites

Move Archive lets you move archives between Enterprise Vault sites. This includes

sites that belong to different Enterprise Vault directories. For example, a move

between sites is useful when users move to a new location and you move their

mailboxes to a mail server in the new site.

Between Enterprise Vault sites, Move Archive supports the following move:

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■ Moving an inactive archive to an active archive

Moving an inactive archive to an active archive

Move Archive lets you move inactive archives from the source Enterprise Vault

site, to active archives in another site. This is useful when you want to move an

individual user’s mailbox to a different Domino or Exchange mail server in another

Enterprise Vault site.

In this case, you must disable archiving for the user in the source site, then move

the mailbox and enable it for archiving in the destination. When you have done

this, you can use Move Archive to move the associated archive to the destination

site.

This section describes the actions you must complete to move a user’s mailbox,

and the subsequent steps that are required to move the archive.

To move the user’s mailbox:

■ Disable archiving on the user’s mailbox in the source site.

■ Move the user’s mailbox from the source mail server to the mail server in the

destination site.

■ Provision the user’s mailbox on the destination Enterprise Vault server.

■ Enable the user for archiving in the destination site.

When you have moved the user’s mailbox and enabled it for archiving in the

destination site, you can move the inactive source archive. In this case, the move

operation includes the following steps:

■ Move Archive closes the source archive. However, the source archive is still

accessible in read-only mode.

■ Move Archive renames the source archive. It appends the archive’s creation

date, and the date of the move operation to the archive’s name.

■ Move Archive copies the data from the source archive to the destination.

■ The mailbox archiving task on the destination server points all the shortcuts

in the user’s mailbox to the content in the new archive in the destination site.

Move Archive completes this step even if you do not use mailbox shortcuts in

your environment.

■ Move Archive waits for the destination vault store to be backed up, except

when the source vault store is configured to remove safety copies immediately

after archiving.

■ Move Archive verifies that all the data is present in the destination archive.

The move operation is now complete and you may delete the source archive

It should be noted that the original archive will not be automatically deleted. Manual deletion of the old

archive is required by the administrator. This flexibility allows the administrator to delete archives as

necessary

[GertjanA]

Hello Jason,

Thanks. I am aware of the documentation. This does not describe, but I'll re-read, what to do in my scenario. Should I move a users mailbox first, then move archive, or should I move the archive first, then the mailbox?

This is a server to server move, where the mailbox will be archived by the new ev server from the new exchange server.

GJ