RE: moving DC to WIndows 2003 Standard

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Yes you will need to run adprep/domainprep on the 2000 servers before you can
promote a 2003 server to be an additional domain controller.

If you install the new exchange server in to the existing exchange
organisation, you can then use the 'move mailbox' option in 'exchange tasks'
on each user account. Dont forget to replicate all public folders. There is a
utility call 'pfmigrate' that comes with EX2003 and is a very easy way of
dealing with public folders. EX2003 has a nice deployment guide to help you
through.

PST files should not be needed but yes they can be moved between servers.
An easy way is to extract using exmerge and then import using Outlook on the
client PC. Otherwise you may have security problems as the administrator does
not have the permission to open every mailbox by default on the import.

You will need to remove the old exchange 2000 server from the exchange
organisation when you have migrated all mailboxes and public folders.

Have a look at the Exchange server website and the 'how to' guides. There is
plenty of information from microsoft on carrying out this type of project.
--
Dan Williams [MCSE]
Imex Technical Services


"Gentian Hila" wrote:

We have two domain controllers Windows 2000 and one of them has Exchange
server 2000 Standard. We are planning to move to Windows 2003.

But rather then upgrading we are buying a new server (hardware), installing
2003 Standard and then making it a Domain Controller and Exchange 2003
Standard Server.

After we have done this, we want to erase everything on the other domain
controller (the one without Exchange, after of course it is demoted) and make
a fresh windows 2003 installation and promote it to Domain Controller again.



The Domain controller that had the exchange server will be demoted and
actually will not be used anymore as DC.

Here are some of my questions:

Do I have to run adprep /domainprep in Windows 2000 DCs ?

How can I move the Information Store from Exchange 2000 to 2003 ?

Can pst files exported from Exchange 2000 be imported in 2003 through
Exmerge without any special procedure ?


Is there anything else that I should consider before I do these ?

I would really appreciate if you could point to some guides as I am aware
that should be something out there but I was unable to find the exact answers
I was looking for.

Thanks a lot



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