Hello,

We have a Exchange 2013 server that is hosted outside the company and would like to move the server in house.

To do this we plan on standing up our own Exchange 2013 server and move the mailboxes and such over to the new server. My question is there any kind of documentation with steps to take to make sure nothing is left behind\missed?

THank you.

Tom

no there is not a specific document for this because it will run into Cross-Forest migration or Single Forest.

Best approach is single forest if your hosting provider allows to to join the exchange to their environment which I don't think so.

You will need to use 3rd party tools or you may want to download the files as PST from hosted environment.

There are many ways to do it depending how many mailboxes you have and how critical is the environment.,

Hi Tom,
Please check my comments on the below URL
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/0d1e0621-eb66-4481-b780-00d55e32d30b/exchange-2013-mailbox-migration-from-third-party-cloud-to-on-premises?forum=exchangesvrdeploy

Hi Tom,

Its two different organization and you need to follow cross forest migration to migrate mailbox from one organization to another. Below links has the details steps to perform cross forest migration for exchange 2010 and you could follow the same step for Exchange 2013 as well.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2011/06/10/exchange-2010-cross-forest-migration-step-by-step-guide-part-i.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2011/10/25/exchange-2010-cross-forest-migration-step-by-step-guide-part-ii.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2011/10/25/exchange-2010-cross-forest-migration-step-by-step-guide-part-iii.aspx

Alternatively, you could also use some third party tool like  Exchange Server Manager to perform this task much easier

http://www.lepide.com/exchange-manager/

Regards,
Krishna
http://smtpport25.wordpress.com

Hi Tom,

to have a checklist of the steps you Need to perform please find the link to the Exchang Server deployment assistant here : http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/10/02/released-the-new-exchange-server-deployment-assistant.aspx

In your Scenario it sounds like an external Exchange 2013 Scenario that can be handled the same way as a reinstallation of your Environment, so you can receive a plan from the assistant, what to do.

For a more step-by-step plan the Action items that are shown by the assistant are linked to the procedures from TechNet and other resources.

Please let me know if that was helpful.
Thanks.

Regards,

Martin

Morning,

Sorry for the late reply but things got a little busy here.

I should have given more details on this project. We are moving the domain with the exchange server in house. At this time the domain that is in house is domain.com while the domain at the consulting firm is domain.local so we are going to be moving the domain.local domain in house. With the licensing on the server we have to rebuild the domain in house. We have built the DC in house and it has been running now for about 2 weeks. Now we need to move the exchange server over. To do this I am planning to build an exchange server on our side and move the mailboxes, public folders and such over. The thing I wonder about is the send and receive connectors and anything else so I was hoping that there would be a document similar to setting up a new exchange server on how to proceed so I would not miss something.

Thank you again for your responses,

Tom

how many users/mailboxes are we talking about. most of the time user mailbox numbers matter.

about a 120 mailboxes.

Tom

as above mentioned there are a number of solution including cross-forest etc.

I'm assuming your user logon to the local AD and only the mailboxes hosted in the cloud.

for 120 user I'd ask all the users to export their email to a PST and give them a time frame.

Setup a new exchange (which you did) and create the 120 mailboxes.

Create the new profile for each users

Test the emails internally among the users

change the mx from hosting provider to your local exchange

attach the PST data file in outlook

ask the users to drag the email to their new outlook profile in a specific folder or whatever folder they wish. Coz you don't want them to lose their email in PST on desktop