Wilson, as i recall, we first did the schema modifications by running setup.exe with the /schemaonly switch. this "stretched" the schema and lessened the work to be done by forestprep. it took about a half-hour in our forest.
forestprep also took about a half hour from the time we completed the wizard. domainprep took even less time. i do recommend that you try all of these in a test lab - even a single DC off your network somewhere. there are a number of places where you can run into issues - primarily permissions problems - that could cost you hours to figure out. you probably don't want that to happen during a scheduled outage window on your production domain. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Varghese, Wilson Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:53 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Forest and domain prep Does anyone know if there is a formula to calculate the amount of time it will take to do a forest prep and domain prep for a Exchange 2000 migration? Or can someone give me some numbers on how long it took you to do it when you did the migration? I am just trying to see what kind of an outage window I should prepare for, but don't see any documentation on this. Thanks for any info you can provide. Wilson Varghese NT Systems Manager KMV, LLC Office: (415)229-0726 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
