Mailbox Logoff time

6 Dec 2006 9:18 AM

Fui Fan

Hi,

I'm doing mailbox move from one Exchange 2003 server to another Exchange
2003 server. My customer want to 100% ensure before start the move process.
Any way?

TIA

6 Dec 2006 4:39 PM

Mark Arnold [MVP]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 01:18:00 -0800, Fui Fan
<Fui***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm doing mailbox move from one Exchange 2003 server to another Exchange
>2003 server. My customer want to 100% ensure before start the move process.
>Any way?
>
>TIA

He'll be turfed off (gracefully) when the mailbox move starts. You
don't need to perform anything other than a communication exercise to
anounce that the moves are taking place.

7 Dec 2006 6:13 AM

Fui Fan

Unfortunately, users will get an error message prompted on their screen if
they happen to forgot to logoff and we go ahead to migrate them. Customer
don't like this idea. They only allow us to migrate if we are 100% sure the
users have logoff ... sad to say that.

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"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 01:18:00 -0800, Fui Fan
> <Fui***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm doing mailbox move from one Exchange 2003 server to another Exchange
> >2003 server. My customer want to 100% ensure before start the move process.
> >Any way?
> >
> >TIA
>
> He'll be turfed off (gracefully) when the mailbox move starts. You
> don't need to perform anything other than a communication exercise to
> anounce that the moves are taking place.
>

7 Dec 2006 9:12 PM

Mark Arnold [MVP]

Well then, just set logon hours on the AD account. You can't turf
selected users off Outlook by use of the usual registry restrictions
on Exchange versions but you can select a set of users and use a GPO
to force logoffs when logon hours expire. That's an AD thing though
but it a piece of cake to do with a GPO.

8 Dec 2006 9:22 AM

Fui Fan

Unfortunately, my customer not allow us to force logoff. :( i'm having a hard
customer ...

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"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> Well then, just set logon hours on the AD account. You can't turf
> selected users off Outlook by use of the usual registry restrictions
> on Exchange versions but you can select a set of users and use a GPO
> to force logoffs when logon hours expire. That's an AD thing though
> but it a piece of cake to do with a GPO.
>

8 Dec 2006 12:11 PM

Peter Lawton

Then I'd tell them what they want can't be done and do they want to cancel
the whole project or go ahead with an alternative method

Peter Lawton

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"Fui Fan" <Fui***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Unfortunately, my customer not allow us to force logoff. :( i'm having a
> hard
> customer ...
>
> "Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Well then, just set logon hours on the AD account. You can't turf
>> selected users off Outlook by use of the usual registry restrictions
>> on Exchange versions but you can select a set of users and use a GPO
>> to force logoffs when logon hours expire. That's an AD thing though
>> but it a piece of cake to do with a GPO.
>>

8 Dec 2006 12:57 PM

Mark Arnold [MVP]

I'm with Peter on this one. Either the customer wants to listen to
reason or they don't.
Exactly what on earth is their problem? You can start the mailbox move
with them logged on or you can force them to log off. Once the mailbox
has been moved they can have a standing instruction for people to log
off their PCs and back on again.
You've wasted so much of your own time (not mine because I'm in here
anyway) on trying to find a solution for the customer because the two
(I'm sure you'd already thought of) methods are unacceptable is daft.