Hi, Just want to ask the experts regarding our project. The company has an existing email server and it is located on a vmware ESX server. It's computer name is MARS. So our email server is: MARS.CIBI.LOCAL, operating system is: Windows Server 2003 x64, Exchange Version is: Exchange 2007 Enterprise. BTW, FYI for all readers, just like in my previous posts. They have 3 roles. MARS which is the mailbox, Venus which is the Edge Transport, and Neptune which is the Hub Transport The company decided to setup/move/transfer their email server on a dedicated machine. They purchased a new IBM server for this. Technically they would like the 3 roles to be in one machine or they would like to migrate it to the new IBM server. Our problem is they have a SSL/TLS certificate that was registered with Neptune which is the Hub Transport. Our worries is that we might be able to move the database to the new machine but the certificate might only be able to recognize ONLY Neptune. We're planning to name the new server as on-v-mail01. As of the time being as far as I know our first step is to backup the database. How do we do this? Thanks in advance Jeff

First of all the simpler and supported way is preparing this IBM server with Windows 2008R2 and Exchange prereqs, than adding all necessary roles to new server. Than you can configure it. If certificate was assigned from your private Certificate Authority, you can simply generate new certificate request and assign it to new machine (this certificate can include name neptune also) and finish configuring Hub transport and client access role. Than you can move all mailboxes from mars server to the new one. Venus must be left alone as an Edge Transport.Regards, Konrad Sagala, MCT, MCSE+M, MCITP: Exchange 2007/2010

Not sure how you had Edge on the same server? I would have thought you had the TLS cert on the edge?Sukh