Yes. Do as Mr. Hlabse advises you and upgrade the PDC of your NT domain to Active Directory. Promote a better box to PDC if necessary first. But please be sure your DNS is in ship-shape before doing that.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rama Arumugam Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:15 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Active Directory Connector Is there a better way to do this? Please advice. Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX (253) 395-4527 -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:17 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Active Directory Connector If you insist on moving to Windows 2000 that way, you will make your migration to Exchange 2000 all the more difficult. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Hlabse Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:13 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Active Directory Connector That's just it. You didn't have to unplug it. You could have promoted it to the new PDC. Then load Server 2000. From: Rama Arumugam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Active Directory Connector Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:04:41 -0800 The reason why I didn't upgrade the current DC (PDC) to Win2K is because it is a very old box and this way I get to install it in a brand new box. Either way, the new box that I installed as a BDC gets the full SAM database since I have replicated with the PDC before I unplugged it from the network. Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX (253) 395-4527 -----Original Message----- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:04 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Active Directory Connector Why didn't you just upgrade the domain controller to 2000 and go from there. Didn't you like the preferred procedures from MS. From: Rama Arumugam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Active Directory Connector Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:48:14 -0800 I actuall installed a new BDC on the network. Pulled the BDC off of the network and upgraded the newer BDC to PDC. Once I promoted the BDC to PDC, I then installed Windows 2000 and ran DCPROMO to installed Active Directory. Installed DNS and configured properly. I ran the tests and its working properly. Current Forest Root has DHCP, DNS, Wins and all the FSMO roles on the same server. Now I am trying to connect my Exchange 5.5 to this Active Directory. I hope this is clear. By the way, the reason for me doing this way is because, we want to keep the same domain name as before and very little downtime. Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX (253) 395-4527 -----Original Message----- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 8:47 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Exchange 5.5 Active Directory Connector Lets see you deployed AD already? Is this a additional server or did you upgarde an exsisting NT 4.0 Controller. Not enough info. Sounds like you didn't plan well. From: Rama Arumugam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Exchange 5.5 Active Directory Connector Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:33:18 -0800 Hello everyone! Can some one tell me where I can find a step by step instruction on how to connect my Exchange 5.5 SP4 server to my new Active Directory? I am primarily looking fot the Active Directory Connector and where to find and how to install it and how to make the two work together. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Rama _________________________________________________________________ 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] _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. 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