RE: NT4 to 2003 server upgrade including Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003
- From: v-xuwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Vincent Xu [MSFT])
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:02:25 GMT
Hi Ashley,
After reading your post, my understanding of your current issue is totally
related to Exchange 5.5 upgrade to Exchange 2000. Therefore, I think
following newsgroup would be more approprate for your issue:
microsoft.public.exchange.setup
Thanks for understanding.
Best regards,
Vincent Xu
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>>The issue I have is this. I am in the middle of a NT4 to 2003 server
upgrade
>>including Exchange 5.5 to 2003 and NT4 Directory to Active Directory.
>>
>>The network started out as follows, three different domains, A, B, and C
for
>>this document. Domain A includes the Exchange 5.5 server which B and C
also
>>access via trusts between all the domains. All domains are single DC
domains
>>and none contain BDCâ??s. The Domain A PDC is the same box that Exchange
>>resides on as well.
>>
>>The customer wants to upgrade Domain A and then B and C at a later date
when
>>the money and time is available.
>>
>>They have two new servers, one that will be the new DC for Domain A and
one
>>that will host Exchange 2003.
>>
>>I brought in a temporary server and installed NT4 on it as a BDC in
Domain A
>>and then promoted it to PDC for the upgrade. I then did an upgrade on the
>>server to 2003 server and also the AD upgrade for the domain. All of this
>>went super smooth and I also joined and promoted the new DC server to the
>>domain and transferred the FSMO roles to it so that the temp DC is now
not
>>really needed but is still there.
>>
>>Everything is running smooth at this point and I was ready to start on
the
>>Exchange upgrade. According to the docs on the upgrade I need to clone
the
>>accounts from domain B and C to domain A so that when I install the ADC
it
>>will be able to match the mailboxes owned by users in those domains to a
user
>>in Domain A. It would then use the SID history attribute to match
accounts
>>from the other domains and allow them to authenticate and get to their
>>mailboxes.
>>
>>I was going to use the ADMT to do this but failed to realize that the
target
>>domain has to be in native mode to make this happen. Currently Domain A
is in
>>interim mode due to the fact that the old PDC is still running as a BDC
in
>>the domain.
>>
>>I canâ??t just get rid of this box because Exchange is on it. So I am
stuck. I
>>canâ??t migrate to 2003 without those accounts, I canâ??t get rid of the
server
>>because Exchange is on it.
>>
>>So what is the best way to get around this issue? I have done some
looking
>>but canâ??t really find anything simple.
>>
>>The only things Iâ??ve been able to see is a utility called Upromote
>>http://utools.com/UPromote.asp which would allow me supposedly to remove
the
>>server as a BDC and bring it back as a member server which would allow me
to
>>go to native mode or I was also thinking that maybe I could bring up the
temp
>>server after demoting it with NT4 on it and put Exchange 5.5 on there and
>>move everything to that server for the upgrade.
>>
>>Any other ideas or any info on these strategies would be appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Ashley Heaton
>>aheaton@(nospam)nex-tech.com
>>
>>
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