Help with Exporting Exchange

[P00HB33R]

Hi Guys,

Hope someone here can help little old me...

A client of mine has their exchange mailboxes hosted with mweb. They are changing service providers. This is where the proverbial S**T hits the fan.

Is there a way for me to copy messages etc over from the local client to a pst folder, do the changes to point to the new service provider, then copy the contents from the PST to the new mailbox?

I really need some advice on this.

Thanks

 

[PsyWulf]

You can export the mail to PST from Outlook,connect to the new account and reimport but from the client side the import might be quite slow. I'd check if the new provider doesn't offer a mail take-on service

 

[P00HB33R]

Thanks PsyWolf,

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But atleast the mailboxes was setup with local cache copy so hopefully that will speed things up

 

[envo]

What is the new mail provider's mail server software? Also exchange?

Depending on the software, you have an option to check external email on the webmail interface. Setup the external mail on the new server to pull mail from the current server. Then just change the MX records on your DNS to swap seamlessly. Keep the old settings (use IP addresses when setting it up or create a DNS entry pointing to the current, soon to be old, server)

This will help pickup any mail that gets sent to the old server while the MX records propagates.

This means you do not have to download everything and re-upload everything. Server to Server.

 

[Ipwn 4]

I would walk away.... Mail migrations where no take on service is available sucks balls.

Issue no 1: you have exported their OST to a pst, you connect the new exchange account and start the import of the pst. Boom, Outlook stops receiving new mail while the import uploads.

Issue 2: you configure the profile elsewhere and do import there. After a day or 3 outlook reports that it is up to date. You do random checks to find that outlook is far from done but has just randomly stopped mid upload.

The solution, tell you client now is a good time to archive. Open the pst under their exchange account and let them drag important mails themselves.