
Any other L2 & 元 devices in between, not affecting the mail service, have been left out. To start with, Figure 1 shows a basic diagram of the original mail flow within the company’s network. I hope you will find my information useful. Right now I have just completed this project has successfully, so I decided to make this write up, trying to provide as straight forward instructions as possible for a complete MDaemon to Exchange Server migration. Despite not having any straight forward procedure to follow, all the reading I went through, gave me a better general idea on how to make my own migration plan from the one mailing system to the other.

I’ve been through various migration tutorials, but some of them were risky, others were incomplete and some others unclear. The same goes for any kind of office hours service disruption, and hopes migrating all the accounts throughout a weekend, were soon proven daydreaming material. But since my company was willing to pay the additional cost, I was more than happy to carry on with this project.Īs the post’s subject indicates, our previous mailing system was Alt-N’s MDaemon (v11.0.3 Pro at that time), and that’s where my odyssey begins! Migrating 100+ mailboxes, as transparently as possible to Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2010 SP1! Any kind of email loss was definitely out of the question. once off price, recurring fees, scalability, stability, functionality, management, value adding services etc), and Exchange Server’s biggest disadvantage might have been it’s high licensing price.

There were many parameters involved in the final decision (eg. Among a reasonable amount of available mailing systems, Microsoft’s Exchange Server was a very strong candidate, fulfilling our requirements. That was my case at my current job position as a network/system administrator. Every modern company wishing (and willing to pay the premium) to move forwards in regards to their electronics communication with the rest of the world, has definitely thought of the Microsoft Exchange Server.
