Dear Sirs and Madame,
What is your opinion about this method of direct Win2000/Exch2000 to Win2008R2/Exch2010 changeover for a very small 12-person, one office location company?
1., Export the mailbox data from Exchange 2000 organization on your Windows 2000 Server.
2., Use the 64-bit edition of Outlook 2010 and the "Exchange 2010 Management Tools" on a Windows7 workstation to import mailbox data back to Exchange 2010 organization onto the Win2008R2 Server.
3., Send old Win2000 Server dual Pentium-IIIS system to long term storage and eventual recycling.
The Exchange 2010 on Windows 2008R2 would co-exist with a mail/web security purpose Linux system inside a XEN virtualization hardware (AMD Phenom-II quad-core machine with a total of 8GB RAM).
Thanks in advance, Sincerely: Tamas Feher, 2F 2000, Hungary.