Want to retire your Exchange 2003 servers?
After leaving a site where I have deployed Exchange 2007, often we don't have time to retire the old Exchange Servers. Many poorly documented systems or processes bounce SMTP traffic off these servers. If you retire these too soon, you'll be an unpopular or at least unhappy administrator. Here are the instructions I leave the client with to help them retire the server gracefully: Make certain Message Tracking is enabled on your Exchange Server After one week, login to the Exchange 2003 server(s). Run System Manger. See the illustration: Select the Message Tracking Center. Enter a server name of the Exchange 2003 server. You may include more than one server. Enter the last week as the date range. Click Find now. When you double-click the message, you should get a clue what host the message originated from in the Message ID field. If not, you can contact a friendly end user to ask about the message. It may require some detective work, but in my experience it is ALWAYS better to d...