Migrating from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007 has not been the easiest task I’ve ever had to do; in fact, it may be one of the most challenging.  I prepared, researched, studied, produced reports, created a presentation, and put all of the pieces in place to make the transition as easy as humanly possible so as to minimally impact end users.  Backups?  Not so easy.  Brick-level backups are a thing of the past so right now I’m humming along with NTBackup until I can remove all of my legacy Exchange (2000) servers and begin using C2C and Asempra services, replacing NetVault’s BakBone client.  

Don’t get me wrong, migrating users was extremely easy and the built-in scheduler made it easy to queue up a bunch of transfers during the workday so that they would run at night. 

On the other hand, public folder migration continues to be an utter mystery.  The system itself seems incredibly flawed and unnecessarily complicated.  I’ve run the appropriate scripts and still I have blank public folders from the client perspective…back to work…