Re: Deployment of Active Directory and Exch 2003 in older NT Domain

From: Ron Puckett (ron_at_dowdiversified.com)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:11:10 -0800

Thanks Steve, these were some of the options I had considered. In response to your questions,,,
1. Yes I do have AD running on our northern California office server. This is not however where I want install Exchange to. For administrative purposes I'd rather have it installed here locally. I think a new forest of domains with trusts between them is looking like the way to go.

2. Yes I have installed a fresh copy of Windows 2003 server on my new Dell server. At this point I could detach it from the current NT 4 PDC domain (it's not on line yet), and create a new domain and AD controller. After creating a trust relationship I assume that the two domains, while not in the forest together will in fact share resources between them? Would this be what I've seen referred to as "mixed" mode? I wish to install Exchange 2003 directly onto this new server running AD with trusts between my old NT 4 PDC and my new branch office Win2k3 server that currently is running a local AD. Under this setup I assume that my users will continue to use NT authenticatication to the existing NT 4 PDC for existing network shares and then have new user accounts on the Exchange server and authenticate to the mail system separately. At least that is until I migrate the user accounts over to the Win2k3 server. I can live with that.

As far as naming the new Win2k3 domain will this affect the name changes you referred to? i.e. Our company internet domain name is dowdiversified.com , could I name the new server domain "dowdiversified.com" and then the new user accounts would be "user"@dowdiversified.com ? This would be ideal.

3. Unfortuantely I cannot load Windows 2003 server onto my old NT 4 machine, it's way too old and slow. We will hopefully have it in moth balls by years end.

4. I am also setting up an IPSEC VPN tunnel between our two offices, (both run Watchguard firewalls). If the branch office server is currently running an AD controller and we have established a trust relationship to it I assume there are no potential conflicts with this.

Thank you so much for any info you can give me, it's greatly appreciated, sincerely Steven.

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