We did an inplace upgrade recently which worked pretty well. Had a few issues, but got them worked out in reasonably quick fashion.
Some things that we did. 1) Made sure AD was functioning smoothly before adding the first MS Exchange 2000 server. Make sure you Domain Controllers are stable and that their are no hardware problems (we had one of our dc's come down with a bad hard drive after we had migrated the site - ended up rebuilding it from the ground up). 2) Installed the ADC and made sure there were no visible errors in the Event Logs. 3) Once we were satisfied here we installed the first Exchange server in our production site (yes we did testing on the install procedure in our test environment first). 4) After the server was installed and stable we migrated all the users from the production 5.5 server over to the Exchange 2000 server. Note: each 5.5 server was the first and only server in the site so we migrated all connectors, Schedule Free Busy, and any Public Folders over to the new Exchange 2000 server. Read the KB articles on removing the first server in site. 5) Once everything has been migrated check for replication and that mail is passing before going on to the next site. 6) Continue this process until all sites are migrated. We are currently running in mixed mode so we can't remove the ADC yet, but we are working on it as quickly as the customer will allow. Nate Couch EDS Messaging > ---------- > From: Bridges, Samantha > Reply To: Exchange Discussions > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 13:24 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Migrating to AD > > Currently: > Exchange 5.5 > Windows 2000 member server (no AD) > > > Migrating our company domain to Windows 2000 Active Directory and Exchange > 2000. Any stories to share? The do's and do not's of upgrading the > domain > and Exchange. > > Our current DC will become the root. > > I am a little weary to upgrade Exchange from 5.5 to 2000. I played h&$$ > trying to get Exchange 5.5 Standard upgraded to 5.5 Enterprise. So I > can't > image a 5.5 upgrade to 2000 going smoothly. Hoping to get some feedback > from you all so I don't fall into any blackholes. > > Thanks in advance for any insight. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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=&la > ng=english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
