I had a beef fillet marinade in Guinness this weekend, it was actually kind of sweet tasting. So I recommend that or a nice piece of buffalo filet marinade in Guinness for you AD Native Mode celebration.
We converted to Native Mode last year on many of our AD Domains. Now is the pain of ADCing and In-place upgrading to Exchange 2000. Just for the record, how many of you all in-place upgraded your Exchange 5.5 Servers and org to Exchange 2000. I am really concerned about us doing this because we have Exchange 5.5 Servers with IS's in the 60 to 100 Gig range, and I feel if we have a problem doing an in-place upgrade on a server, we would have to do a disaster recovery of the server in a limited time window. In addition it will take us some time to get all the servers upgraded to 2000, and we will have some server consolidations to contend with. What has everyone elses experiences been doing this? Has in-place upgrading Exchange 5.5 servers with large IS been pretty non-eventful? I have heard from some people are doing the following when moving from Exchange 5.5 to 2000. 1. Setting up the RUS first, then standing up pure Windows 2000 Exchange 2000 servers in the site, and moving the mailboxes from the Exchange 5.5 servers to the Exchange 2000 servers. Tedious, but is easier to roll back a failed move. Takes forever to get to pure front-end/back-end solution. 2. doing Inter-org migrations by creating a New Exchange 2000 org, and migrating the accounts out of the Exchange 5.5 org into the new 2000 ORG. Allows the New Org to start out in Native Mode, and allows for refresh of Exchange Hardware. Problem seems to be third-party add-ins for Exchange like FAX Services, Blackberry, and Secure E-mail. There are workarounds for this though. Todd Myrick -----Original Message----- From: Sullivan, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 7:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Mixed to Native Always a good Guinness! <Easy!> -----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 7:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Mixed to Native The worst part of the mixed to native mode conversion is picking which refreshing beverage you're going to enjoy when its done. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 5:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Mixed to Native > > > > Hi All, > > I've finally migrated my last remote office into my 2000 > domain. All of my NT BDCs are gone and I'm 100% 2000 on the > DCs.... I still have a couple offices on NT workstations. > It's been some time since I've focussed on 2000 and can't > remember if there are any gotchas with the move from mixed to native? > > I've read back through all my documentation/notes, but that > no substitute to real worl experience... Can anyone offer > some guidance? > > Thanks and BR, > > Rob > > > Robert Rutherford > MIS Department - DEK > +44 (0)1305 208232 > +44 (0)7970 122362 > > > > > ******************************************************************** > This E-mail and any files transmitted with it are in > commercial confidence and intended solely for the use of > the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. > If you have received this E-mail in error please notify the > Administrator by E-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the > author and do not necessarily represent those of > DEK International., or its affiliates. > ******************************************************************** > This footnote signifies that this message has been > checked for viruses by MailswpUK1 > ******************************************************************** > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
