Could really do with some help here please? Exchange 2013

triplea

Hi, Can anyone shed some light on this please...I've wasted whole day on it so far. Basically my company has merged with another and we now have to bring their email over to ours and its taking forever. What I really want to do and its suggested you can in both outlook 2010 and 2013 is connect to 2 different exchange servers/accounts ( my company is A and them Company B and drag mail between the 2 mailboxes Of course we can do it by exporting and reimporting the PST but its really long winded to be fair and a royal PITA. Googling it suggests it can be done and we have done it using an email client on a MAC but this is a solution I would really like to do from a windows box/outlook2013 or some other program. We can also connect striaght to an inbox on a webmail account for the other company. Also them being on outlook 2003 has issues with bringing everything over properly. So can this be done in outlook and if so how please? Desperate at this point :-/ Cheers AAA

triplea

apologies just saw Im in the wrong thread – could a mod move me please?

Claymoore

What you are looking for is a cross-forest Exchange migration.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee633491(v=exchg.150).aspx

Since you have never done one of these before, I suggest you bring in a consultant. There are a lot of moving parts here, coexistence and mailflow in particular if the organizations are too large to cut over all at once.

Also, Outlook 2003 isn't compatible with Exchange 2013.

cyberguypr

Desperation and migration are two words that should never be together. As Claymoore said, I would leave this to a very experienced Exchange admin or a consultant. They'll do it at a fraction of the time it will take you and will do it right. if you click the wrong thing you could end up having to restore a bunch of stuff that I'll guarantee won't be fun.