Easy Mailbox Migration between Exchange Servers in in the Different Domains An organization can have multiple domains, multiple Active Directory e...

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An organization can have multiple domains, multiple Active Directory environments, and thus multiple Exchange Servers. This multiple factor helps a lot in segregating the different branches of an organization located in a same building of scattered over the globe. However, the migration of mailboxes between two Exchange Servers of different domains is quite difficult. This is because the native tools involve a lot of critical and hard-core technical steps first to establish a trust between two domains, second to perform the migration, and third to resolve the compatibility issues. All these are considered as the drawbacks of Exchange Server and that too because of the availability of different versions in the market within a short span of time. If you’re facing any such situation in transferring the mailboxes of different/same Exchange version in the different domains, then Lepide Exchange Recovery Manager (LERM) is a boon for you. Follow the below mentioned steps to perform the mailbox migration between Exchange Servers of the different domain.
Connecting to Exchange as a Source
Whenever you start Lepide Exchange Recovery Manager (LERM) for the first time, the following screen will appear.

Figure: Start up Screen
Select the option “Live Exchange” for manually providing the details to connect to the server. Alternatively, you can select another option “Live Exchange using existing MS Outlook profile” if Microsoft Outlook available on your computer is already configured and connected with Exchange Server. In this post, we’re selecting the first option “Live Exchange”. Click “Next” button to show the following wizard.

Figure: Providing the details to add Exchange Server as Source
Here, you’ve to provide the inputs like name of b...

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7. Click on “Finish” button. This will take you back to the same screen of LERM.
8. Now, you’ve to drag-and-drop the mailbox of the Administrator to the new user “test”.
In the similar way, you can transfer all mailboxes from the source Exchange Server 2007 to the destination Exchange 2013 in the existing or new mailboxes. The same procedure can be followed for transferring the folders of a mailbox and the folder contents.
Conclusion
If you want to migrate the mailboxes between the Exchange Servers of same/different versions between the different domains in the work or to an online Office 365/OWA, then Lepide Exchange Recovery Manager comes out as a one-stop solution. As compared to Windows native tool, LERM makes it quite easy to perform the mailbox migration even from an upgraded Exchange version to a downgraded one and from hosted Exchange to online Exchange.

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