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Active Directory Synchronization Made Simple

Pete Caldecourt, Director of Product Management

There’s no getting around the need for Cross-Forest, or Inter-Org, email migrations. They just happen. And in some cases an IT group has only a few days to plan out the transition. They are brought about by different events such as mergers & acquisitions, company divestitures, or just plain company partnerships when organizations want to combine their email environments onto a single platform. Whatever the reason for your migration project, you will need to address the same issues every time.

The cross-forest migration process is quite complex and the Binary Tree E2E Complete product can assist you to simplify and streamline the mailbox migration process. However, to begin with, you will need to synchronize the Active Directory (AD) forests, establish bi-directional data flow between the domains, and prepare the environment for the mailbox migration process.

What options are available? Are there solutions which can ensure the success of the AD transition?

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Posted on 7/9/2012 9:00:00 AM | with 0 comments

Architecting an On-premises Exchange 2010 Organization (Part 1)

Posted by Jason Pope, Senior Messaging Consultant

So you decided to migrate to Exchange 2010 On-Premises. As with any project, the planning phase is critical in order to successfully execute your migration project. In this blog post, I'm going to discuss some of the areas within your Active Directory Forest that you need to be aware of when migrating to an On-Premises Exchange 2010 Organization, and how the overall directory services topology comes into play during your migration.

Sizing matters in every aspect of your Exchange environment and, like I’ve said in the past, Microsoft Exchange is truly a mix of Active Directory and message routing. A solid Active Directory will surely increase the success of your migration project. Unlike Domino, Exchange relies heavily on Active Directory. So, it’s important to understand what your Active Directory is used for before starting your migration. Determining what’s currently working and how well it’s working may save you time later when deciding what you may need to modify in order to maintain the service levels your end users or customers are accustom to on a daily basis.

So, let’s dig into Active Directory by taking a look at the logical partitions of Active Directory:

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Posted on 1/25/2011 11:00:00 AM | with 0 comments