I'll spare the long winded explanation as to why, let's just say the company has had a massive change and I'm taking the opportunity to perform some infrastructure changes.
I have several 2003 servers, the AD functional level is 2003. My exchange server is 2003. The exchange server is currently not accepting emails, it's all been diverted to a off-site basic mail server.
I'm creating a new forest + domain, 2012 server, 2012 functional level. I also want to install a fresh version of Exchange 2013. I have no need to migrate users or mailboxes from the 2003 system to the 2012 domain.
I'm not going to upgrade all the servers, most will remain on 2003 for the short to medium term. Will this cause any issues? (They'll only be domain members)
What is important however is that the users outlook profiles are retained locally. The locally downloaded email, calendar, contacts and notes. The users have all this already in an OST on their laptops.
The Windows 7 profiles I'd like to copy also between the domain switch also, but this not as important as outlook.
A lot of the guides and resources I'm reading cover the server migration which I'm not interested in.
What would be the best way of migrating the user profile and outlook profile?