Re: Deployment of Active Directory and Exch 2003 in older NT Domain
From: Steven Halsey [MSFT] (Stevhal_at_Online.Microsoft.com)
Date: 03/31/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:18:36 -0800
Do you have any Active Directory Domain Controllers installed at any
locations in the company (including the new office) ?
If you don't then you have several choices at this time:
1. You could install a fresh Windows 2003 domain and create a trust to the
NT4 Domain and over time migrate the NT4 accounts to the new domain.
Exchange could be installed directly into this new domain. The advantage
here is your Windows domain is 100% new, the disadvanatage is you now have
to migrate your accounts from the NT4 domain along with name change to the
domain.
2. You could upgrade the NT4 domain to Windows 2003
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326209&Product=wins
vr2003).
This would require you upgrading the NT4 PDC to Windows 2003 server, just be
sure your hardware can handle the upgrade. You could take a good server
build it as an NT4 BDC to your joined to your existing PDC, transfer the PDC
role to the new server, and then run the setup from the Windows 2003.
After the upgrade completes you should look to retire the old NT4 server and
change the domain to Windows Native mode.
So long as the remote office is not running or joined to an existing domain
you should be able to just make the server a member of whatever domain you
wish.
If you do already have Active Directory Domain Controllers then your choices
become a little more limited. Either you will have to use the existing
Active Directory DCs and integrate your new server into them, or create a
new Forest and create trust between the domains.
Hope this helps
-- Steven Halsey Stevhal@online.microsoft.com Microsoft Exchange Please do not send email directly to this alias. This alias is for newsgroup purposes only. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Ron Puckett" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:949B4366-4F8F-4797-8C07-EC880A62DE60@microsoft.com... > HELP! > I'm unsure how to best go about this. I have an older NT 4.0 PDC on my local network. I've never run Active Directory or Exchange Server having used an off brand email system for years. (Infinite Interchange, from Captaris) This worked for a while, but it's time to integrate both AD and Exchange 2003. I've purchased a new email server running Windows Server 2003 and a copy of MS Exchange Server 2003 with all the needed licenses. After reading a mountain of tech papers I am however still at a loss as to the best way to deploy Exchange so as not to limit it's effectiveness. We also recently bought a remote office and the server I installed at that location runs Windows 2003 Server. I'd like very much to include this office in a new Active Directory forest of domains. Can anyone help stear me in the right directions? Do I have to install the new Win2k3 Server as a member server and run mixed mode? Can my old NT 4.0 Server remain the PDC? I simply don't know where to begin....... HELP? Thank you...
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