I am in the processes of transitioning to 2007 sp1 from 2003 sp2.. I have
already started to move mailboxes and have mailboxes on both versions. All
end users are running Outlook 2003. Only a few IT users that run Outlook
2007.
The default OAL and generation are being done on one of the 2003 back end
servers, this server has been having issues with updating the GAL which seems
to only be resolved with a reboot.
Rather than troubleshooting the issue in 2003, the server should be
decomissioned shortly, I would like to move the GAL, OAB generation and
distro to the 2007 environment.
When is the "best" recommended time to perform this process during a
transistion? Any gotchas that I should watch out for?
Haven't heard of any but can't hurt to ask, any issues with Outlook 2003
clients pulling OAB and GAL from 2007?
Thanks in advance....
chris
Dgoldman [MSFT] - 30 Jun 2008 14:37 GMT
This can be done when ever you want really depending on what you want to
troubleshoot. If you are going to host the OAB on the 2007 server you need
to push replicas of the oab data back to 2003 so they legacy clients that
are on 2003 can download the data from the local pf store. One of the
easiest things I tell people to do is wait until all of your mailboxes are
on 2007 and then just move it once and generate everything on 2007. Then you
can have your pf store on the 2007 server for legacy clients and oab v4 for
web distribution for 2007 clients.

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