# Exchange Migration w00t
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [March 4, 2007, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408 "2007-03-04T09:31:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2007, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/1 "2007-03-04T09:31:43Z")
17 hours straight…3 people…140 accounts…100 machines…
Migrating from pop3 -\> Exchange
A lot of the machines were outlook express and windows 98…
ughhhh
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### Author:  [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2007, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/2 "2007-03-04T09:32:14Z")
You have my condolences. Fuck exchange.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2007, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/3 "2007-03-04T09:34:22Z")
It was the worst we had to convert the outlook express mail to a pst…since 40 of the computers are not on the domain…and now they are going to use webmail…
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### Author:  [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/4 "2007-03-04T15:19:34Z")
Wow, that def had to of sucked.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/5 "2007-03-04T15:40:47Z")
is an exchange server similar to IMAP?
i hate pop3, i like being able to check my email over the web anywhere i go
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### Author:  [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/6 "2007-03-04T16:41:49Z")
You can check a pop3 anywhere as well - use sites like [mail2web.com](http://mail2web.com)
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### Author:  [@Violator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Violator)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/7 "2007-03-04T16:45:46Z")
nerd
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/8 "2007-03-04T16:51:28Z")
[quote=“sureshot007,post:6,topic:25408"”]
You can check a pop3 anywhere as well - use sites like [mail2web.com](http://mail2web.com)
[/quote]
when i check my pop3 using thunderbird tho doesnt it download all the messages and delete from the server?
maybe i just have it setup wrong
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### Author:  [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/9 "2007-03-04T16:55:00Z")
Yeah, that’s a setup option.
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### Author:  [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/10 "2007-03-04T17:55:42Z")
You must love your job. Either that or you’re a masochist.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/11 "2007-03-05T08:17:45Z")
I love the follow up this morning…
Everyones biggest problem is they have no concept of how to change the message viewing pane in outlook.
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### Author:  [@badazzss](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/badazzss)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/12 "2007-03-05T09:21:33Z")
^ typical idiots. you know how many people are sitting there making 40, 50, 75, even 100k plus… and can’t use common sense to figure it out?
the biz world is UNREAL!
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### Author:  [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/13 "2007-03-05T09:23:16Z")
we are doin a migration here at my work too for outlook, its taking all week cuz we have like 1000 employees annd who knows how many accounts
and yea sometimes i have to show my boss how to make a rule in outlook, like durr
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### Author:  [@Ovrwrkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ovrwrkd)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/exchange-migration-w00t/25408/14 "2007-03-05T19:17:25Z")
Ouch. So how deaf were you the following morning from all the whining by the users???
I’m dreading this coming Monday. I just hope that the DST patches all work on the MVS systems that my group administers 😛