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Hi all,
I would like to migrate from exchange 5.5 to exchange 2003. Right now
5.5 is running on a MS Win2K SP3 box, 800Mhz Xeon, w/1GB RAM. No Raid
is installed, and have a 5 GB priv.mdb file. About 40 mailboxes and
only 3 get about a gig in size, the rest are fairly small.
We have another box, Dual Xeon 2.8GHz, Gig-0-Ram, with two Hitachi 74GB
SCSI drives that I would like to put Exchange 2003 on. It's a Dell PE
1750 with Win 2003 Standard, SP1.
Here are some questions I need answered:

#1. Will this hardware suffice for exchange 2003? Mostly concerned
about the storage. Will two 74GB's non raid be OK? (using Acronis to
backup)

#2. If this will work Ok, what would be the best way to set this up(OS
and TLs on first, exchange data on second drive)?

#3. The Dual Xeon 2003 is not running AD. I have not installed it yet,
because I am not sure of the impact on our other 2K DC Svrs, running AD
2k. If I run DC promo on this box (which I will have to to do the
migration to it), what it the affect of the other DC,s that have Win
2K?

Thanks :)
Chris

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