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Hello Mike, We are trying to get away from using the
old DC’s for anything because they are a “white box” computer
and we are trying to get the DC’s to be on our HP servers. Unfortunately,
our options are limited and that is why we were looking at the Exchange Server
to be a DC. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of mike kline http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822179 Why don't you go ahead and make the file server a 2003 DC and
then then either promote one of the old DC's to 2003 or you could wipe one of
the old DC's (after gracefully demoting the box) and start from
scratch and do a clean install of 2003 and make that your second DC.
On 8/4/06, Chris
Pohlschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: Does changing the role on the Exchange server run the DC
PROMO utility to make the server a domain controller? We want to have two DC's
for 2003 and then once those are up and running, demote the old ones. I did not
know if there was a way to make a server a domain controller without running
the DCPROMO utility. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Behalf Of Kevin Brunson
If you promote that Exchange box to a domain controller, it
really will break a lot of stuff. You will be able to recover from most
of it, but it will be a pain. Then in the future, if you ever want to
make it NOT a DC again, it will break that same stuff, and then you will
probably NOT be able to recover it. You WILL break OWA.
Guaranteed. You might very well kill some other Exchange functionality as
well. It is possible you could get OWA back after a tremendous amount of
effort, but you really don't want to promote that Exchange box. Kevin Brunson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Behalf Of Chris Pohlschneider Hi Mike, Our intention is to have the Exchange 2003 Box and the file
server to be our new DC's. We want both of these boxes to be running WINS, DNS,
DHCP. This is what our current DC's are running and we just want to move
everything to newer hardware and move to AD 2003. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Behalf Of mike kline Chris, Here is a
link to your last question and you can see the follow-ups there too. When you
say you want to move all services that run on the old DCs to the exchange 2003
box and your file server does that mean that you want the file server
to become the new DC? What
other services would you like to run on the exchange box? Check out the
link below on exchange servers and domain controllers. Thanks Mike
On
8/3/06, Chris Pohlschneider <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I
have some questions about doing a migration from Windows 2000 AD to Win2k3AD.
Our current environment entails two Windows 2000 AD domain controllers running
DNS,WINS, DHCP. We also have Exchange 2003 installed on a separate Windows 2003
Server. We want to keep the same domain name and move all of the services that
run on the old Windows 2000 Domain controllers onto the Exchange server and
also our main file server which is Windows 2003 Server. I am a bit of a newbie
and would like some guidance on how to perform this upgrade. I appreciate any
help. Sorry for asking this question again, but I have misplaced the e-mails
from this last discussion. Chris Pohlschneider Holloway Sportswear IT 937-494-2559 937-497-7300 (Fax) |
