[Whammer]

We have been moving users from Exchange 2000 to 2k3. Finally moved my last user yesterday. I shut off the Exchange services on the 2000 box and I can no longer send emails from my Blackberry?? The 2000 box was the server that BES Admin originally attached to, but I moved the mailbox and modified the MAPI profile. The other factors are that the 2000 box is a DNS and DC server and by shutting it down will put my location at only 1 server with these functions.

If you have suggestions, I am open ears. We need to remove Exchange and reformat to use the hardware for another box, but I can't if my BBs will not be able to email.

Thanks,

Whammer

[udontknowjack]

After you moved the BES admin account, did you run handheld cleanup? That will force the BES to find that it has moved. I don't remember the exact switch. Type handheldcleanup /? to find the switches and what each does. The tool is a utility that comes with BES.

What version of BES areyou running btw. I remember this same issue with BES 2.1 but BES is much more forgiving now with this kind of stuff.

[Whammer]

We are running 4.0.5.5 and to answer your question, No I didn't run that util. I will look on the server now for it.

[Whammer]

Thanks udontknowjack. That worked beautifully.

[Whammer]

Actually, what I found is that the order for the DNS server was the old 2000 box first and that is what was creating the problem.

[Whammer]

Actually it didn't work. It seems to be a DNS issue, I removed the old 2000 box from the DNS server list and I am not in bizness.