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Resource Forest, Account Forest - Exchange Removal questions.
Ok thanks for the response. Do you know who might be able to take a look at this and do a quick review? I found several links on this, namely fro Japp W. But as with all things exchange things aren't always what they seem.
https://jaapwesselius.com/2018/04/25/exchange-resource-forest-and-office-365-part-i/comment-page-1/?unapproved=1749&moderation-hash=dfef11e92d03c8a560f2eec78cd20c61#comment-1749
The reason why i am asking is because this is for a large enterprise business. so i want to get some additional input.
Robert
Robert Bollinger Brian Desmond, Michael Van Horenbeeck, Jaap W, Jeff Guillet... all do work with on-premises servers.
TonyRedmond Thanks again tony. BrianDesmond Paul Cunningham
I worked a little on the issue over the weekend, and setup a new test environment. Exchange 2013, new office 365 tenant. Setup a standard resource forest/account forest. I have been commenting on one of Jaap's posts. my comments all the way at the bottom.
https://jaapwesselius.com/2018/04/25/exchange-resource-forest-and-office-365-part-i/
- I wonder if ADMT might work here?
- How would one install Exchange in the Account forest? (To manage objects, once the Resource Forest is gone).
Since AD connect would be installed in the account forest and then connected to both Environment's Directories for sync purposes, I thought ADMT might do the job, but i just cant be sure. Tomorrow i am going to see if/what i can test.
Brian, Tony Redmond said you may be able to assist. Paul, you have provided valuable insight in the past which is why i suffered you into this. Thanks in advance.
Robert
Robert Bollingerif I follow what you want to do is remove the resource forest, which contains all of the Exchange attributes?
You'll need to copy all of those over to the objects in the account forest so they look like remote mailboxes there, and then you'll probably find it easier to setup a new AAD Connect that only talks to the account forest. There are various ways to copy the attributes over, but using a script is probably easiest. You can setup the new AAD Connect server in staging mode and look at the pending exports to make sure you have everything copied over.
Thanks,
Brian
- Thanks Brian. Yes. That is correct. The customer wants to completely remove the resource forest and the corresponding AD Domain as well.
However one last point to this is the customer also wants to be able to use Exchange in the Account Forest - to manage objects.
in my lab AD connect has been installed in the account forest and connected to the resource forest as well as the account forest (so 2 AD's). Was that the right thing to do? or should i have installed it in the Resource Forest?
Also, why cant i use ADMT to migrate the user accounts over and effectively merge them?
Thanks,
Robert
