With the appropriate trusts (which are probably going to be there anyway from the migration) it shouldn't be too big an issue.
-------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Network Administrator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 7:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Exchange Migration with Domain > > > It's happy newb question time! This might be better oriented > toward an > Exchange list, but since it's regarding a domain migration, I > thought I'd > try here first. > > My employer recently acquired a small firm with a horribly > maintained NT4 > domain. It consists of a single (!) domain controller > running all network > services, SQL 7, Exchange 5.5, and a myriad of third party software. > Suffice it to say it's in real bad shape and their entire network is a > ticking time bomb. > > Anyway, I'm looking into rolling out two new 2003 domain > controllers and > using ADMT to migrate from the NT4 domain to a new 2003 AD. > I'm wondering > if it would be possible to keep the Exchange 5.5 server in > place for the > moment once I've rolled out the new domain. > > I'd like to leave a couple weeks leeway to `fix the quirks' > with the domain > migration before migrating the mail server to Exchange 2003, > but at this > point I'm not entirely certain that will be possible. > > My understanding is that you can't `decommission' an NT4 PDC > per se, but > that you must simply `pull the plug' on the last domain > controller. Is that > true? The network migration will be difficult enough without > having to > worry about migrating the SQL server and Exchange server at > the same time. > I'll have enough things to track down as it is! > > So, if you folks could set me straight, I'd greatly > appreciate it. Thanks! > > -James R. Rogers > 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/
