this is where that lovely Patsy Cline quote comes in so handy: "People in hell want ice water".
your client may want a lot of things, but they can't really have them all at once, can they? If they don't want to upgrade their domain to 2000 yet, and only want to buy one new server, and can't give up any existing functionality even though it cannot co-exist, then they can't really afford to run Exchange 2000. you could offer them some ice water, to soften the blow. In most places, it's still free. -----Original Message----- From: James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Thursday, July 04, 2002 11:40 AM Posted To: MS Exchange Forum Conversation: Really need help with 5.5 to 2000 upgrade Subject: Really need help with 5.5 to 2000 upgrade My client has an NT 4.0 domain, running Exchange 5.5, and they want to upgrade to 2000. The problem I'm having is that they're using SBS Server 4.5 (so trusts can't be used), and they don't want to upgrade their domain to 2000 yet. To top things off, some of their proprietary software for telephony and faxing will not work under 2000. They have a PDC, one BDC, and only want to spend enough money to add one extra machine to the network, so this will have to be runnind AD and Exchange 2000! My plan so far is to install a new 2000 domain, use the Exchange ADC to pull account information over and install the Exchange 2000 server as a new server in their existing organization. Following this, move the mailboxes from Exchange 5.5 to 2000, and finally configure the organization to use the 5.5 server for sending/recieving any mail destined for external (smtp) addresses. Is this solution possible, or does anybody have any better suggestions? If they weren't using SBS, and/or we could upgrade the whole domain to Win2k/Exch2k this wouldn't be such a problem, but these are options I don't have. _________________________________________________________________ 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]
