Unable to migrate distribution lists in an Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000/2003 Intra-site migration. (NETIQKB22873)

  • 7722873
  • 02-Feb-2007
  • 08-Sep-2008

Resolution

fact
Exchange Migrator 2.2 SP1

fact
Exchange Migrator 2.3

symptom
Unable to migrate distribution lists in an Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000/2003 Intra-site migration.

cause
In this scenario, Exchange Migrator does not migrate distribution lists (DL's).  However, this type of migration is also not possible with the native Exchange tools such as Move Mailbox.  Move Mailbox works for mailboxes alone, but not distribution lists (DL's) or public folders (PF's).

fix

Use an Active Directory Connector (ADC) connection agreement to replicate the DLs to the Exchange 2000/2003 GAL.  In some cases, you may find that the DL's have not replicated from the Exchange 5.5 environment to the Active Directory (AD).  If this is the case, you may want to review the following Microsoft article:

XADM: Distribution Lists Are Not Replicating from Exchange Server 5.5 to Active Directory (291385)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291385



Additional Information

Formerly known as NETIQKB22873