Recently upgrading Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2010. Whew! What a process. The initial upgrade to Exchange 2003 was a fairly smooth process. The install completed however I ran into a small problem getting the information store mounted after the install was complete. I started looking at the installed program list I found it was still running Exchange 2000 but with System Manager having an upgraded interface. Looking into this further there was a DC on our network which had not been completely removed. I was forced to run DCPromo/ force removal at a previous time. Removing all previous references to this domain controller and starting the Exchange 2003 in-place upgrade was successful!
I then installed Exchange 2010 on a new server running Windows 2008 Server R2, moved over a handful of mailboxes from our Exchange 2003 server and replicated the public folders between the two Exchange Servers. My big issue now is our backups. We utilize Symantec Backup Exec, problem is 12.5 does not have support for Exchange 2010 and the release for Backup Exec 2010 is first quarter of this year. ( If we are lucky) I am stuck trying to decide whether to wait to move the remaining mailboxes or to go ahead and proceed. Currently, I am using Windows Server built-in backup but I am having to manually kick these off.
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