RE: Mixed environment design- any issues?

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Date: 05/12/04

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    Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:34:30 -0700

     Thank you for your insight!!

    >-----Original Message-----
    >I had the same questions a few months ago when I upgraded
    our Exchange 2000 servers to 2003. The best way to think
    of Exchange 2003 is to think of it as a big service pack.
    I had called MS support about some of the questions that
    you had and thats what they told me. You will have to run
    the /domainprep and the /forestprep commands and yes it
    will extend the schema and make some changes but the
    changes were not even noticed to the users or the admins.
    You probably won't notice a thing when you run the
    commands. As far as compatibility... we ran in mixed
    mode for about 2 months without any problems. Meaning e2k
    and 2003. On weekends we moved mailboxes over to the new
    exchange 2003 server. Users didn't even know it.
    >
    >Not that you need to do this first but we upgraded our
    domain to 2003 first before I did the exchange migration.
    from what I understand Exchange 2003 will work fine in a
    2000 domain however you can't install it on a 2000 server
    which was the biggest pain in the ***. Over all the
    hardest part was just creating a 2 SMTP connector so that
    both exchange servers can send and receive mail internal
    and external but even that was easy. The upgrade is
    easy. Exchange 2003 is much more stable than 2000. We
    have a lot of virtual memory problems with 2000. When we
    upgraded those problems were gone. Good luck!
    >.
    >

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