Jim, For what you are proposing I would recommend leaving the servers that Exchange will be upgraded on at Windows 2000 SP4. Upgrade, or install, your front end server/s to Exchange2k3, and then upgrade the backend servers to Exchange 2k3. If AD is not going to be upgraded any time soon you are just as well off leaving Windows alone. Of course doing a rolling upgrade if possible is best.
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:51 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Design Question Well, technically you can run Exchange 2003 on Windows 2000 Server, but I'd definitely recommend running it on Windows 2003. Your assumption, though, is correct, that you can run both the Front end and the Back end on member servers. Ben Winzenz MS Exchange MVP MessageOne -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Kennedy Posted At: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:42 PM Posted To: swynk Conversation: Design Question Subject: RE: Design Question Let me take this one step further since it appears I am mistaken on the requirements for Exch. 2003. The requirement is for 2003 server, and not 2003 AD? So we could run the front end on a member server and move/upgrade the back end to Exh 2003 on 2003 member servers? JK -----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of Stidley, Joel I assumed that when you said "Updating the 2000 Domain at this point is not an option." You mean updating your domain controllers to Windows 2003 and raising the domain function level to Windows 2003 mode. There are benefits to doing this but it isn't required to using Exchange 2003 front-end servers. You can install Exchange 2003 front-end servers in the same admin group as the current Exchange 2000 servers. As Andrey mentioned, though this will require a schema update. Also as Tim said you are required to have both a front-end (since you can't install/upgrade Exchange 2003 on a backend if there are Exchange 2000 front-end servers in the admin group) and backend that has Exchange 2003 on it in order to have the new OWA features. HTH Joel _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
