Cross-forest Mailbox Moves using the Exchange Management Console

Another great feature in the Exchange 2010 Management Console is that you now can do cross-forest mailbox moves using the new “New Move Request” wizard. To launch this wizard right-click a User Mailbox in the EMC, then select New Move Request in the context menu as shown in the figure below.

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This brings up the wizard shown next. Here you can specify to which Exchange organization you want to move a mailbox.

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Before you can perform a cross-forest move, you must add the Exchange org in the target forest to the EMC. In addition, you must have the AD account of the source user mailbox migrated/replicated to the target forest using ILM or a similar tool. Yes doesn’t work like the Move-Mailbox cmdlet did in Exchange 2007, where the AD object would be created if it didn’t already exist.

– Henrik Walther

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