I’ve installed CloudPanel into a brand new load balanced Exchange 2013 environment. So far, everything is running well. However, we have a pre-existing Hosted Exchange 2010 SP3 (/hosted) environment with no Control Panel and about 400 mailboxes across about 30 organization. I intend to do a cross-forest migration of those mailboxes to the new Exchange 2013 environment, but I’m curious how CloudPanel will be able to handle this since the users and mailboxes will not be created through the CloudPanel Interface and as such, will not be able to see/manage them natively.
Is there any way to import existing users/mailboxes in Exchange into CloudPanel (and associate them with a corresponding company) so that they can be managed through CloudPanel going forward? If so, what does this process look like? I would like to test this with a few pre-existing test mailboxes that are not currently associated with CloudPanel.
I did this for my environment. It won’t cover the distribution groups or contacts but….
* Pre-create the company in the new forest with CloudPanel
* Migrate the users using the scripts for forest migrations
* Import the users… I really need to be involved with this but I have something basic which is https:///CloudPanel/company//import/users
That import will just scan the company’s OU for users not already in the database and allow you to import them into the database.
Jacob – I have successfully migrated a few mailboxes from my old hosting environment into new and then imported them into CloudPanel. However, the permissions are not set properly for the imported mailboxes in that I can see all the address lists for all companies as well as the default lists. Is there a function from within CP that I use to correct this? Or do I just need to run powershell commands natively against the imported mailboxes once they have been migrated in?
The import feature in CloudPanel doesn’t change any backend Exchange stuff on that mailboxes. It simply reads AD attributes and puts it into the SQL database. So you need to enable the company in CloudPanel for Exchange and change the mailboxes manually to be associated with the new address book policy.
Ben,
Did you get all this worked out?
