Re: Exchange 5.5 in AD question
- From: "Tito Madrid" <tmadrid@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:00:06 -0800
Kirill - Many thanks for the quick reply and good suggestions. I like the
idea of moving my NT4 domain directly to 03 AD - My current exchange 5.5
server hardware is very beefy and expensive, I would want to eventually move
the mail app back to it - Would that senerio kind of be like this:
Upgrade domain to 03 AD - no touching of exchange 5.5 required?
Buy an extra server - install exchange 03 fresh
move mailboxes over from 5.5 server to 03 - no touching of clients needed??
And then I can remove exchange 5.5 from the original server, install
exchange 03, move the mailboxes over, and decomission the first exchange 03
box?
If the above is correct, I think I only have one question - can i do an
'in-place' domain upgrade from nt4 to 03 AD?
many thanks.
Tito
"Kirill Palagin" <kpalagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tito Madrid wrote:
Hello all-
Running exch 5.5 sp4 on a windows 2000 server in a NT 4 domain - one
site, one server - about 650 mailboxes - 40GB IS - works perfectly. My
goals for 07 are:
Upgrade domain to AD
Upgrade 5.5 to 2000
Upgrade 2000 to 2003
My thought process is that I really would rather do in-place upgrades,
and it seems like I can if I follow that patter (I know you can't go
in-place from 5.5 to 2000).
My question is about the first step. I know that in mixed-mode AD, the
exchange 5.5 box will 'think' it's in a legacy NT4 domain. On the
weekend that I upgrade the domain to AD, will I have to touch the
exchange box - will it keep chugging away fat and happy, or will I need
to make some config adjustments for the domain upgrade. The domain
upgrade will be 'in-place'.
Many Thanks.
Tito
If I remember correctly my experience, you do not need to touch Exchange
when upgrading your domain to AD. You may install Active Directory
Connector to make Exchange replicate it's Directory to AD.
Any specific reason of your intention to do in-place upgrade? Usually such
system may have difficult to troubleshoot problems and with your plan of
several in-place upgrades you will get horrible mess in the end.
May I suggest upgrading your domain to AD on Windows 2003, introducing
Exchange 2003 and moving mailboxes from E5.5 to E2003? No risk, no
downtime, you even can reuse current hardware after properly
decommissioning Exchange 5.5.
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