Re: Want 2003, got NT4 domain and separate W2K Exch2000. Suggestio

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From: Muffin (muffin_at_nospam.postalias)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:17:06 -0800

Thanks for taking an interest.

No, there is no Exchange Server on the NT domain. Against each W2K AD user
we have added the NT domain user as an "Associated external account" and
given the same NT account "Full mailbox access". With the trust relationship,
this works fine (except for delegation, but we won't go into that in this
news group).

My concern is that the upgrade to Server 2003 of the NT domain may
invalidate the trust or that Server 2003 might try to link-up with the W2K
domain somehow.

"mote" wrote:

> Does the NT Domain have an Exchange 5.5 Server?
> How are the users in the NT domain accessing the
> mailboxes in the Win 2000/Exchange 2000 Forest?
>
> Just need a little more info to help you out.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> "Muffin" <muffin@nospam.postalias> wrote in message
> news:E6268764-9D73-4474-AEC8-67512334E65B@microsoft.com...
> > We have an NT4 domain (lets call it "DOMAIN1") that I want to upgrade to
> > 2003. So I plan to create a new BDC, promote it to PDC, unplug from
> network
> > and upgrade it to 2003. If it appears to work OK then I will plug it back
> > into network and then upgrade the BDCs and finally the other member
> servers
> > (all NT4). The clients are mainly XP Pro so I expect they will be fine. I
> > want to keep the domain name of the NT4 domain ("DOMAIN1") and avoid
> > disruption at the client machines.
> >
> > I am concerned about a single, standalone Windows 2000 server machine with
> > its own AD domain running its own DNS etc. and Exchange Server 2000
> > ("DOMAIN2"). It was added by a third-party and I know very little about
> the
> > AD structure. We were told that it was kept separate because it could not
> be
> > added to the NT4 domain. I know it has a trust relationship with the NT4
> > domain to allow access to the email accounts. I don't want to upgrade the
> > Exchange Server box just yet.
> >
> > 1. If I upgrade the NT domain, is the Exchange Server going to get upset?
> > 2. Will Server 2003 detect the Exchange/W2K AD server forest and try to
> > link-in with that or can I keep the NT4/2003 domain separate at this
> stage?
> >
> > Any thoughts and/or suggestions would be appreciated. I don't want to get
> > this wrong as our Exchange Server is important to our business.
>
>
>

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