Ed's done this quite a few times (as have many) so it would at LEAST pay to
read that.
As for the question about upgrading during the day, Ulf gave great advice to
weigh that thought with the risk of having to take care of minor issues if
you've not done it before. Most likely, nothing to worry about, but making
changes during production hours is typically not a best practice.
Adding a new DC/GC is not a big deal in most environments. Removing
existing should likely wait until things slow down (maintenance window or
otherwise after hours when the impact is lessened (typically))
Al
From: "Ed Crowley [MVP]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 / Exchange 2000 Upgrade to 2003
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:45:04 -0700
If you upgrade Exchange using my method
(http://www.swinc.com/resource/e2kfaq_appxa.htm) you can do most if not all
of the work during business hours with no significant downtime.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stevo
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 1:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 / Exchange 2000 Upgrade to 2003
Experts,
I have a small domain with 3 Windows 2000 DCs and 2 Exchange 2000 mail
servers (across 2 sites). I'm planning on upgrading both the domain and
Exchange to 2003 and would like some recommendations from people who have
actually done this (successfully would be preferred).
The questions I have include the following:
1) What is the best order to perform this upgrade? Exchange first or
Domain
first?
2) Would it be better to perform an upgrade of the existing controllers, or
bring new 2003 DCs online?
3) Same for Exchange - should I upgrade the Exchange server, or should I
bring a new 2003 Exchange server online concurrently and then migrate
accounts over to the new server?
4) What are the gotchas?!!
I am planning on replacing the hardware of all DCs and Exchange servers, so
any advice around best practices would be appreciated.
Thanks
Stevo
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