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Err. Hmmm. Blech. You can help this out usually by making sure that you have a specific Exchange Site for your Exchange Servers, place the DC/GCs into that site that you want Exchange to use. I.E. Keep the subdomain DC/GCs out of the Exchange Site. Exchange will *tend* to use those local site DC/GCs but can possibly failover into the DC/GCs in the other site. ------------- http://www.joeware.net (download joeware) http://www.cafeshops.com/joewarenet (wear joeware) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003 Have you run into issues with Exchange pointing to GC servers in your subdomains and not being able to resolve recipients in Distribution list unless the DL are Universal DL? We have: Root Forest Windows 2000 with Exchange 2000 and most user accounts, Groups, DLs, etc Subdomain Windows 2003 with Exchange 2003 - mostly for development / testing, few accounts Exchange at times used the DC in the Subdomain for GC lookups. Our DLs were not Universal so when Exchange would attempt to resolve the recipients of the DL using the subdomain GC it would not find any members.....at that point messages would die in the Categorizer queue. MS solution was to convert all mail enabled groups to Universal or remove the subdomain DC from the Exchange Directory Servers list. Universal groups will publish all their members in the GCs, but this philosophy seems to contradict everything I read early on about trying to avoid the use of Universal Groups because of the increase in replication between GCs. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003 One thing I did not mention is that I have Exchange 2003 deployed in my forest. What precautions need to be taken for this. I read the q article 325379 but that talks about exchange 2000. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003 Nope, I have one running just as you described. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003 If the forest prep is done, are there any problems if a child domain is built as a windows 2003 domain while the rest of the forest is still in windows 2000? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Shaff Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003 Forest Prep will prepare your forests for the Windows 2003 upgrade. IT will also expand your schema at that time. S -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003 I really just want to prepare the forest for windows 2003, I don't need the domains ready yet. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rod Trent Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003 Also, if you stick in the CD to upgrade a server, it will check the server and AD type, and will not upgrade until you have performed those steps. It even gives you the steps to perform that you can copy/paste. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Shaff Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003 I am not aware of any KB articles, but here are the steps that were performed on our upgrade. The forest and domains are prepared by using the adprep command on the schema operations master and infrastructure operations master, respectively. (25min) * At a command prompt, change to the \I386 directory on the installation media and then type: d:\i386\adprep /forestprep * When prompted, type 'C', and then press ENTER to begin forest preparation, or type any other key, and then press ENTER to cancel. * After the forest preparation data has replicated throughout the forest, prepare the domains for Windows Server 2003 as described below. The domain preparation operation must be performed on the infrastructure operations master of each domain in the forest. (no reboot necessary) Prepare an Active Directory domain for Windows Server 2003: (4min) * On the domain controller holding the infrastructure operations master role * At a command prompt, change to the \I386 directory on the installation media, and then type: d:\i386\adprep /domainprep * After the domain preparation data has replicated throughout the domain, upgrade the domain controller by running Windows Server 2003 Setup (I386\winnt32.exe on the installation media). (no reboot necessary) * Specify Upgrade from menu options * Enter Corporate CD Key * Update Setup Files from Microsoft (system reboots) * Setup will now prepare the installation * Installing Windows * Finishing Installation (system reboots) o Total Install Time: 2 hours 10 minutes Hope this helps. S ***************************************** Steve Shaff Active Directory / Exchange Administrator Corillian Corporation (W) 503.629.3538 (C) 503.807.4797 (F) 503.629.3674 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003 I have a question, what are the steps to update the schema to Windows 2003? Is there a q article out there? Justin A. 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