Task 15: Migrate the Exchange Server Mailboxes

In this task, you migrate user mailboxes from your preexisting Exchange Server to the Windows EBS Messaging Server. As part of this task, you should also move the offline address-book generation process to Windows EBS and replicate public folders to the Messaging Server.

This migration task ensures that your users benefit from all the functionality that is provided by the features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and from the integrated security and monitoring features that are provided in Windows EBS. Before you begin this task, make sure that you have migrated both the DNS and DHCP roles to Windows EBS.

You will need approximately two hours to perform the mailbox migration, depending on the number ...

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