I have an unusual upgrade scenario. Please advise.
From: Mark Arnold [MVP] (mark_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/04/04
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:51:38 -0800
It's not a particularily unusual scenario as it goes,
although usually people have managed to get 2000 working
properly before 2K3.
You can co-exist 5.5 and E2K3 quite happily.
There is useful stuff herte:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003
/library/default.mspx to assist in the migration. You
will need to re-install the ADC and do the AD preps again
for the new version.
If you do think it's an unrecoverable mess then you can
strip out Exchange 2000 from the AD before you start. See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;273478 for details.
>-----Original Message-----
>I'm an ex-NT4 administrator that hasn't done much admin
work for the past 3
>years. With my latest job I've inherited these
responsibilities again. The
>previous network admin has left me with a bit of a mess
to sort out.
>
>We have a Windows 2000 network running in mixed mode
(there are not NT4
>machines so I'm going to move to native mode). We have
one domain with <20
>users. We have one PDC and two BDCs each running
Exchange Server 5.5 in
>this domain using replication. (we have a dozen other
servers, but they
>aren't relevant to the problem at hand.) All of the
public folders and
>mailboxes are on one of the BDCs.
>
>The last admin attempted to add an Exchange 2000 server
to the network and
>do an upgrade. He supposedly got close to having it
working, but something
>went wrong and he never finished. That was about 2
years ago.
>
>What I want to do is upgrade from 5.5 to 2003 and
eliminate the two
>replicated servers. The problem is, all of the
documentation I read assumes
>I will be starting from ground zero, but I'm not. We
already have AD
>working. It appears that he has the ADC installed. I'm
not sure what else
>he has done.
>
>Any advice concerning what could I run into here, or
advice on how I can
>figure out where I should start would be very much
appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
>Justin
>
>
>.
>
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