01-28-2016 02:15 AM
A customer wants a complete rebuild of his EV environment.
Due, lots of upgrades.scripts, corruption and inconstency, the customer wants to build a new EV environment in the same domain.
- 1 Domain
- Old EV server 10
- New EV server will be 11
- 1 SQL server
- Exchange 2013
- No Webapp integration, but the new one should have it.
I am not sure of its possible to have two EV environments in one domain, so i am using common sense to try and figure this out.
Please let me know is i am missing something. The goal is to have a quick migration strategy. At this moment, the descission hasn't been made if the shortcuts should return in de usermailbox for old archived items.
I have setup the following tasks that should be done.
Build fase:
- Install a new SQL instance for the EV11 databases
- Create new EV accounts
- Install EV 11 with new Alias
- Create EV sysmbx for Exchange archiving
- Exchange permissions and throttlepolicies
- Provision Exchange server for archiving
- Install Webapp for OWA
Migration fase:
- Delete shortcuts in usermailboxes
- Export archive EV10 server to PST
- Provision user in EV11
- Import PST in archive with or without shortcut creation
As the new EV environment is build from scratch, i wonder if its a best practice to install the EV server with Split DNS so that the shortcut URL is the same for internal and external users. Any thoughts on that?
Am i missing someting?
01-28-2016 07:45 PM
How many users and how much data? We have a product called Archive Shuttle that is used for this scenario all the time. I would be happy to chat more about it if you are interested.
01-28-2016 11:29 PM
About 800 archives and 1.2TB of data.
Next week ill discuss this with the client, maybe tooling will be bought.....depends on the budget ;)
02-02-2016 01:38 PM
it would be well worth the money spent and time saved to use a migration tool