Cross forrest move mailboxes

Posted: January 18, 2012 in Exchange 2010, MBX, Powershell
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Today I’ll post my favourite way to move user and mailbox objects across forrests.
  1. Prerequisite: Transitive AD trust, migration server running ADMT
  2. Migrate the user object with ADMT
  3. Mail enable migrated users with PowerShell

    Enable-MailUser -Identity user -ExternalEmailAddress user@domain.com

  4. Collect both domains’ credentials

    $LocalCredentials = GetCredential
    $RemoteCredentials = Get-Credential

  5. Prepare move with “prepare-moverequest.ps1” from Exchange servers’ scripts folder

    .\Prepare-MoveRequest.ps1 -Identity user -RemoteForestDomainController dc.olddomain.com -RemoteForestCredential $RemoteCredentials -LocalForestDomainController dc.domain.com
    -LocalForestCredential $LocalCredentials -TargetMailUserOU “OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=com” -UseLocalObject –LinkedMailUser

  6. Move mailboxes

    New-MoveRequest -identity user -RemoteLegacy -TargetDatabase MAILBOXDATABASE -RemoteGlobalCatalog dc.olddomain.com -RemoteCredential $RemoteCredentials -TargetDeliveryDomain
    domain.com

There’s a GUI for cross-forrest-moves, too:

Cross Forrest Mailbox Move GUI

Refer to this TechNet Blog article for further details.

Cheers,

Chris

Comments
  1. Taryel says:
    May 2, 2014 at 11:58 am

    In Exchange 2013 migration from Exchange 2010 after step 5 we must run this command “Get-EmailAddressPolicy | Update-EmailAddressPolicy”

    Reply

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