REF: E14 Mailbox Role – Move Requests – Part 2

 

 

Reasons for Moving Mailboxes

The following scenarios list the reasons for moving mailboxes:

• Transition   When you transition an existing Exchange 2007 or Exchange Server 2003 organization to Exchange 2010, you will move mailboxes from the existing Exchange servers to an Exchange 2010 server that has the Mailbox server role installed.
• Realignment   You can move mailboxes to realign based on specific values. For example, you may want to move a mailbox from one database to a database that has a larger mailbox size limit.
• Investigating an issue   If you need to investigate an issue with a mailbox, you can move that mailbox to a different server. For example, you can move all mailboxes that have high activity to another server.
• Corrupted Mailboxes   If you encounter corrupted mailboxes, you can move the mailboxes to a different server or database to leave the corruption behind. The corrupt messages will not move.
• Physical location changes   You can move mailboxes to a server that is in a different Active Directory site. For example, if a user moves to a different physical location, you can move that user's mailbox to a server that is in a site nearer to the new location.
• Separation of administrative roles   A company may want to separate the administration of Microsoft Exchange from the administration of Microsoft Windows accounts. To do this, you can move mailboxes from a single forest into a resource forest scenario. With this scenario, the Microsoft Exchange mailboxes reside in one forest and their associated Windows user accounts reside in a separate forest.
• Outsourcing e-mail administration   A company may want to outsource the administration of e-mail and retain the administration of Windows user accounts. To do this, you can move mailboxes from a single forest into a resource forest scenario. With this scenario, the Microsoft Exchange mailboxes reside in one forest and their associated Windows user accounts reside in a separate forest.
• Integrating e-mail and user account administration   A company may want to change from a separated or outsourced e-mail administration model to a model in which e-mail and user accounts can be managed from within the same forest. To do this, you can move mailboxes from a resource forest scenario to a single forest. With this scenario, the Microsoft Exchange mailboxes and Windows user accounts reside in the same forest.

 

 

Blog Extended Reading

1. REF: E14 Mailbox Role – Move Requests – Part 1
2. REF: E14 Mailbox Role – Move Requests – Part 2
3. REF: E14 Mailbox Role – Move Requests – Part 3
4. REF: E14 Mailbox Role – Move Requests – Part 4 
5. REF: E14 Mailbox Role – Move Requests – Part 5

More Information & Reference
1. Understanding Move Requests