Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Deployment Guide- P59:Your Exchange Server 2003 deployment plan should reflect your understanding of how Exchange and Microsoft Windows Server™ operating systems interoperate. It should encompass the relationships between Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows® 2000 Server sites and domains, domain controllers, global catalog servers, and Exchange 2003 administrative and routing groups. | 581 Table 6 Migration Wizard default mode and batch mode features Mode Features Default mode Clone Mode Target address Migration Wizard logging Batch command line mode Clone Mode Target address Migration Wizard logging Ability to run multiple instances of Migration Wizard Password mode 582 Running Migration Wizard in Default Mode In default mode Migration Wizard performs a mail merge of the messages in your mailboxes. If an existing mailbox exists the mailbox data is not duplicated. Before copying a message Migration Wizard checks the last modification date of the message if the target copy is newer than the source copy the wizard does not copy the message. This is useful for incremental mailbox copies or failed migrations. For example if your last migration failed before completion Migration Wizard now skips the existing messages that were copied successfully. You can also use Migration Wizard to import the messages that were delivered to the source mailbox during or after the last migration. Limitations of Default Mode When using Migration Wizard in default mode consider the following limitations associated with moving mailboxes across forests If you run Migration Wizard in default mode your users lose their .ost files after you migrate mailboxes. As a result your users must synchronize their .ost files again. 583 If the target message was previously copied by other tools Migration Wizard may not function unless those tools preserve the PR_SEARCH_KEY The Migration Wizard log file does not output the counters for skipped and replaced messages. Delegate permissions are not preserved during a cross-forest move. Published certificates are not migrated during the move. In addition you cannot recover Key Management Service certificates after a move. To be recovered the certificates require a domain name. Client-side rules are not preserved during a cross-forest move. Running Migration Wizard in Clone Mode Running Migration Wizard in clone mode allows you to preserve .
