Re: Windows Server 2008 w/Exchange 2007 Authentication on Active D

Well,

I feel like I'm getting way off track on this... which started to be a very
simple install, now is seeming more and more complex.

This is just a test, I don't care what the names are of the servers, I only
need 1 DC for this test, that is required, from my understanding...

Is that right?

If so, I would like to move forward with the AD installation, which where we
left off, was here,

">> Install the domain controller first, again i would make this one DNS
server with AD integrated zones. If the DC is up and running use
dcdiag and netdiag to check for errors. If no errors, add the 2008 as
a member server to the domain and just insert the exchange disk.
During the setup you have just to follow the installation disk, it
will start doing the complete domain preparation for the exchange
schema additions."


So, i now have the integrated dns domains, and i pasted the results from the
dcdiag, so I will go ahead and run the netdiag one,

Does this sound right?
Thanks,
MIKE

"Ace Fekay [MVP Direcrtory Services]" wrote:

"netadmin07" <netadmin07@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Alright, sounds good,

Here's my first question. Server #2 and #3 are truly going to be placed
into production, eventually. Server #1 is not. I was just using server
#1
for this test.

So, my question is, if I setup Sever #1 as the 2nd DC with DNS, as you
said,
if once this test phase is complete, can i remove Server #1 from the
equation, and replace it with another server, and just setup that server
as
we did with Server #1? Or will there be conflicts doing it that way?

I definitely agree and will setup 2 DC's, anything to help with failover,
or
reducing IT time spent on fixing issues during production is a major plus.


My 2nd Question is,
Can I re-install the active directory service and fix the name of the
server? To something such as:

Server #2 (glv-dc-01) - primary AD/DC/DNS server
Server #1 (glv-dc-02) - secondary DC/DNS server
Server #3 (glv-mx-01) - exchange server

Because, I would rather fix the naming issues now, while these servers are
in their testing phase and not in production.

I will be working on this all this week, so I will be posting a lot, I
thank
you both for all your help, and hope that I can complete this soon..

Thanks,
MIKE


Meinolf responded to all your questions. Good that you are doing it now!

Ace


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