I think this is supported way and I would like to setup Windows 2008 R2 64bit and install Enterprise Vault 10.0.4 on it and use Enterprise Vault Server Settings Migration utility vs. installing 2008R2 with 9.0.5 doing migration and upgrating in plce.
When I run this to collect information I noticed this is actually stopping and disabling EV services on existing 9.0.5 server, can someone share experiance how does exactly this tool work, how does data gets migrated to new EV server? is this cut over process or can I migrate individual users archives? we have archive files located in two different stores one is local NTFS partition in existing 9.0.5 EV server and other is UNC path and archive files are located on different server, how do data gets move? finally we were previously using EV for Lotus Notes and migrated to Exchange at some point in time and at that time we used notes to exchange convertion tool so archived email can be open from Outlook, our existing EV 9.0.5 server has Lotus Notes client installed on it to this day I believe when we tried to uninstall it in past we could not open old email that was archived in Lotus Notes, it alsmost sounds like eventhough we no longer use Lotus Notes and conversion tool was sucesfully used after we migrated from Notes to Exchange, EV still uses some Notes files to read from archive, do I have to install Lotus Notes client on new EV 10.0.4 server as well?
and one more questio as I'm migrating our existing Enterprise Vault 9.0.5 (windows 2003 32bit) to Enterprise Vault 10.0.4 (Windows 2008 R2 64bit) majority of our clients are Windows 7 and Outlook 2010 but all our new users are getting Windows 8.1 with Office 2013 laptops, is Enterprise Vault 10.0.4 and EV outlook addin working on Windows 8.1 and outlook 2013?