Migration Manager for Exchange 8.14 - User Guide

Changing Calendar Collection Settings

All the options that you specify in the Add Calendar Synchronization Job Wizard and the Add Calendar Collection Wizard are later available in the calendar collection’s Properties dialog box, along with some additional options available only in that dialog. These options are described in the related topics. To view or modify any of a collection’s settings, right-click the collection in the management tree and click Properties on the shortcut menu.

In addition to the options you specify in the Add Calendar Collection Wizard, you can specify the target mailbox store for the mailboxes of the collection. If there will have been no target mailboxes corresponding to the mailboxes of the collection by the time the Calendar Synchronization Agent will start processing these mailboxes, it will create the mailboxes in the mailbox store you specify for the collection.

Synchronization

If any errors occurred during the mailbox synchronization and you need to fully or partially re-copy the data that has already been sent to the target server, select the appropriate resynchronization option. You can:

• Resynchronize all mailboxes previously copied to the target server, including mailbox items, mailbox folder permissions, etc.
• Resynchronize mailbox contents only.
• Resynchronize only mailbox folder permissions and folder-associated information.

You can also remove the synchronization settings directly from the agents’ databases if for some reasons the resynchronization settings were not cleared after the resynchronization was performed.

After you modify any of the collection’s settings, the job is marked with an exclamation mark that means that you need to update the mailbox synchronization agents’ databases. Right-click the job in the management tree and click the Commit Changes on the shortcut menu to update the agent’s task lists on the remote servers.

Changing Calendar Synchronization Agent’s Settings

To set the scheduling, logging, and other options for the Calendar Synchronization Agent, right-click the node of the server where the agent is installed under the Calendar Synchronization node, select Properties from the shortcut menu, and select the Agent node in the dialog box that appears.

It is strongly recommended that you set all the options before you start the migration.

General Options

The General page of the Calendar Synchronization Agent allows you to view and modify the following agent’s settings:

• The Calendar Synchronization Agent stores its configuration and statistics in a separate database file. You can specify how frequently the database should be compacted.
• Whether only the messages modified recently should be copied to the target.

• The account under which the agent will connect to the AD LDS or ADAM server and the AD LDS or ADAM replica. Since the domain migration and directory synchronization data is stored in AD LDS or ADAM partition, the agent needs access to the AD LDS or ADAM server and partition where the directory synchronization database is stored.

Logging

Every Migration Manager agent saves its logs on the server on which the agent is installed. For each agent you can specify whether the log file will be overwritten or appended during each session, and select which events will be written to the text log and Exchange server application log files.

Scheduling Options

For each server where the Calendar Synchronization Agent is installed, you can define when the agent is allowed to put additional stress on the Exchange servers and on the network. You can specify:

• The hours during which each agent is allowed to run. On the agent’s Schedule page of the Server Properties, click Synchronization Schedule. In the dialog box that appears, select the time frame during which the agent should perform synchronization jobs.
• Whether there should be a sleep period between the agent’s sessions and the duration of that period.

Calendar Synchronization from Target to Source

If some users with mailboxes are created on the target and you need these users to be visible on the source, perform the following steps:

1. Add the target Exchange organization as a source Exchange organization in the Migration Manager console.
2. Add the source Exchange organization as a target Exchange organization in the Migration Manager console.
3. Specify the migration start date and time.
4. Create a new calendar collection selecting the target Exchange organization as the source and the source Exchange organization as the target.
5. Add the new target users to this collection.

The one-way synchronization is enough for this scenario. For more details about two-way synchronization for calendar items, refer the Adding a Calendar Collection section, Step 3. Select Collection Members of this guide.

Exchange 2010 Considerations

If an Exchange 2010 organization is involved in the mailbox migration process, consider that in Exchange 2010 all mailbox communications flow via Client Access Servers (CAS) instead of Mailbox Servers as in previous versions of Exchange. Therefore Migration Manager for Exchange agents use CAS for mailbox and calendar processing.