Re: what is the duration of forestprep in an existing exchange organization?

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From: Glen Trafford (glen_at_beehivesystems.com)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 22:42:18 +1000

It will make very little difference if there are 2 users or 2000 users.
Forestprep is updating the schema on the schema master. Adding attributes,
classes etc to the schema is not dependent on how many users you have, it
will depend more on the processing power of the box. If your test
environment has similar hardware to production then assume the same amount
of time. Exchange not be affected (ie is still up) when Forestprep is being
run. I would pick a quiet time on the network to do it as the schema changes
will be copied to the other DC's and I would want this replication to be
complete before moving on with the install of Exchange 2003.

Glen

"Birte" <loadhigh@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:b2597755.0410180045.42fade4c@posting.google.com...
> Hi NG,
>
> this is the actual system state:
> one exchange organization with two exchange 2000 servers and 3 DCs,
> windows2000 in one domain, no remote sites.
>
> I want to install a new windows 2003 server with exchange 2003.
>
> During the exchange 2003 installation I need to run forestprep before
> the install.
> In my test system, the forestprep needs up to 50 minutes! but the test
> domain contains only a few user!!!
> How long will a forestprep in the productive environment lasts, when
> there are more than 2000 email-activated users?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Birte

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