Well, I certainly wouldn't be installing Exchange 5.5 onto an NT 4.0 server ever again if I could help it.
Active directory is a complex beast for larger organizations, but it needs to be implemented if Windows is going to remain your primary authentication method and maintaining supportability is an important factor for your company. However, since E2K3 has now gone RTM and it sounds like you have not actually put any AD servers into production, I'd be looking at implementing that instead of W2K based on extended 'planning phases' your company chooses to pursue. That being said, AD is also extremely important (EXTREMELY... Did I mention EXTREMELY) important to a well functioning implementation of E2K. If your AD implementation sucks ass, your Exchange implementation will never be right until that is fixed. Without knowing enough about your environment, it is difficult to recommend that any group undertake this process without some level of political support... Or some highly qualified consultants to do things right (and still take the blame while looking chagrined all the way to the bank). On 4/1/03 19:13, "Jason Coleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to ask you all for some feedback on an issue, but first some > background info: > > My company has an Exchange 5.5 server with a 70GB+ information store. The > server is 3+ years old and has reached its end of life. Furthermore, we > are out of disk space to defrag the IS because policies were never put in > place for file attachment sizes. > > There was a plan to migrate to Windows 2000 and bring the Exchange server > over to Exchange 2000 and also onto newer hardware. Because it has been > hard to get people together for the Windows 2000 migration, an alternate > plan has been devised to copy the Exchange database over to a new Windows > NT/ Exchange 5.5 server, defrag the database and put policies in place to > buy time until the Windows 2000 migration can take place. A few of us, > although we see the logic in the alternate plan, our gut feeling tells us > to do the Windows 2000/ Exchange 2000 migration ourselves rather than wait > for the people who never have time. > > Thoughts. _________________________________________________________________ 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]
