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I’ve been using CodeTwo migration product for a while now and thought a review would be useful to the community.Scenario goes like this – Primary forest has Exchange 2007 and Target forest running Exchange 2013

First step was to ensure Impersonation rights are in place for the target forest:

http://www.codetwo.com/kb/how-to-set-impersonation-rights-manually

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Wizard is a next next install on the Source forest side.

Ensure you DO NOT have Outlook installed on the machine on which you are installing the tool

The On-premises Exchange server configuration window will display. Choose the appropriate Exchange Server name and the mailbox (source server administrator’s MAPI profile) the program will work under and hit Next.

 

The only thing left to do to start migrating your mailboxes is setting up the target on-premises server of your choice.

Please note that you may change the source at any time by entering the Source server settings from the program’s ribbon.

CodeTwo Exchange Migration needs a source server’s MAPI profile to work under which you create while configuring the source server’s connection. Therefore, if the profile is not configured, the program won’t work. Please note that the administrator, whose profile is used in the MAPI profile configuration, must belong to the Domain Admins group. Otherwise the program won’t work correctly.

There are three types of target On-premises Exchange servers that can be used in migration: the ones from the same domain, those from a different trusted domain and servers from a different untrusted domain. No matter which type of target server you choose you will have to define the administrator’s credentials including the UPN and corresponding password.

UPN (User Principal Name) is an Internal account name of a user in an e-mail address format.

To set up a connection with the target On-premises Exchange Server, choose Click to select target under the Target mailbox section in the administration panel of the program (Fig. 1.).

This opens the target server connection wizard (Fig.2.).

If you want to connect to a target server from the same domain there is not much to do: the Autodiscover function will locate the server automatically.

On the other hand, if you want to set up a target server from a different domain the Autodiscover function won’t work. You need to enter the server’s location manually instead of using Autodiscover. To do that, tick Configure connection manually and enter either the full Server name or its IP address (Fig. 3.). You need not enter the EWS URL field as it will be created automatically with the given server name.

In the next window you will find the automatically added UPN, which is the administrator’s UPN of your source server. It will let you migrate mailboxes and public folders within your own domain. To enter the target server administrator’s UPN e-mail address from outside your domain, enter it manually or automatically via the Browse button (Fig. 4.).

Once you choose the Browse button, you will be able to pull out the appropriate UPN from Active Directory. Furthermore, by clickingLocations … you can determine the domain from which the target on-premises server administrators’ UPN will be taken (Fig. 5.).

Please note that the Browse button can ONLY be used to list the UPN’s of administrators from the same domain or different TRUSTED domains. This option is UNAVAILABLE with the untrusted domains. Therefore if you want to select UPN from an untrusted domain you will have to type it manually.

After choosing the desirable domain enter your administrator’s name and click Check name – your user will be listed automatically. Click OKand the administrator UPN will be listed in the field provided (Fig. 6.).

Then, enter the password and click the Next button.
The window that shows up is the verification stage of the target server connection wizard. When the Verify button is clicked, it checks the server connectivity, the impersonation rights assignment status and the connection to the target Powershell console (Fig.7.).

Additionally this step offers a couple of other configuration hints, e.g. about creating new throttling policy with higher throughput or changing the EWS request size limit. Lastly you can check administrator’s impersonation rights against the selected user mailbox on the target server – simply click blue Test link to open the mailbox selection window (Fig.8.). Then just select target mailbox by clicking Browse button and clickTest to perform the check.

Finally, after confirming your target server’s settings by clicking Finish in the verification step of the connecton wizard you will be able to select the target mailbox to which the source mailbox will be migrated. In the Select target mailbox window choose the newly created server connection (it is shown as the target server administrator’s e-mail address) and pick one of the target mailboxes automatically listed in the field provided (Fig. 9.). Then confirm your choice by clicking OK.

If the desirable mailbox seems to be not listed, use the Refresh list button at the bottom to refresh the list of available target mailboxes.
Lastly start the migration by using the Start button located in the Administration Panel’s menu (Fig. 10.).

You may restart the migration process at any point by clicking the Rescan button located in the menu of the Administration Panel (Fig. 11.).

And that’s all – the selected mailbox has been migrated. Managing the already existing target connections and mailboxes

It may happen that you want to manage the already configured target server connection (remove, change settings or establish new). In such case click on the configured target mailbox in the Administration Panel and the following dropdown menu will display (Fig. 12.):

There are two available options to choose from:

• If you click Change target mailbox… and expand the dropdown menu (Fig. 13.), you will be able to manage the already existing target server connection (Fig. 14.) and add new target server connection (Fig. 15.)

 

 

 

If you select Change target mailbox… after it was migrated the following window will open (Fig. 16.):

Remove – this option will remove /unbind the source mailbox from the target mailbox (Fig. 17.)

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Fig. 17. Unbinding the source mailbox from the target mailbox.

The migration status may be checked not only in the Migration status area located next to the chosen pair of mailboxes but also in the field below the list of all mailboxes (Fig. 18.). Furthermore, if any errors or warnings appear in the Migration status areas you may check their details in the Log files.

Fig. 18. Checking the migration status.

Change the number of mailboxes to be migrated at once.

A very comprehensive log is available to review in the event you want to troubleshoot.

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Ratish Nair

Microsoft MVP | Exchange Server

Team @MSExchangeGuru

Posted November 24th, 2013 under Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Exchange Tools, Migration. RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.