Cannot create/move mailboxes on/to Exch03 Front End Server

18 Dec 2008 9:28 PM

Travis O'Neill

For some reason when creating or moving mailboxes within my Active Directory
2003 organization, I am unable to select my front end exchange server. Is
this normal behavior?

Typically this would not be a big deal as I generally would never put a
mailbox on the FE, but I am trying to restore and redirect a single mailbox
to a different mailbox using Backup Exec and it will not allow me to redirect
to a mailbox on the same Exchange Server. Any ideas?

Thanks

18 Dec 2008 9:35 PM

Mark Arnold [MVP]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:28:07 -0800, Travis O'Neill <Travis
O'Ne***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>For some reason when creating or moving mailboxes within my Active Directory
>2003 organization, I am unable to select my front end exchange server. Is
>this normal behavior?

Yes.

>
>Typically this would not be a big deal as I generally would never put a
>mailbox on the FE, but I am trying to restore and redirect a single mailbox
>to a different mailbox using Backup Exec and it will not allow me to redirect
>to a mailbox on the same Exchange Server. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks

Stop it being an FE or knock up a VMware guest for the time you need
it.

Either way you're not going to be able to use an FE to do any work on
a store.

18 Dec 2008 9:42 PM

Ed Crowley [MVP]

You Brits have strange fetishes.

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Ed Crowley MVP
"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <m***@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:28:07 -0800, Travis O'Neill <Travis
> O'Ne***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>For some reason when creating or moving mailboxes within my Active
>>Directory
>>2003 organization, I am unable to select my front end exchange server. Is
>>this normal behavior?
>
> Yes.
>>
>>Typically this would not be a big deal as I generally would never put a
>>mailbox on the FE, but I am trying to restore and redirect a single
>>mailbox
>>to a different mailbox using Backup Exec and it will not allow me to
>>redirect
>>to a mailbox on the same Exchange Server. Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks
>
> Stop it being an FE or knock up a VMware guest for the time you need
> it.
>
> Either way you're not going to be able to use an FE to do any work on
> a store.

18 Dec 2008 9:56 PM

Mark Arnold [MVP]

Those VMware servers are just too easy.