> My bad. It does work. I was thinking of this where someone was trying to > use LDAP: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg38415.html > http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20000815-DM01.htm >
Ah. That makes sense. > > We recently have upgraded our PDC and another BDC to 2000/AD in > compatibility >mode. The new DCs are PIII 1.2Ghz, 1GB RAM, RAID 5 > > Not sure if you need it but are you using the 3 Gig memory switch in the > boot.ini? > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q291988 Hmmm...I will have to read that Q article a couple more times (until it makes sense) and see if it looks useful. ;-) > > Also, RAID5 is a not appropriate for Imail? Others have posted on this. Possibly under heavy loads, but I doubt it in my case. These servers are 50 times faster than what's needed for IMail. I don't imagine the IMail I/O for our staff would often overflow the cache on the RAID controller. But even so, the current NT server is also RAID 5 and it smokes (not literally). > > >I really need to get this last NT4 machine upgraded so I can get out of > compatibility >mode. > > What is the need to change to native mode so quickly? Almost all persons > involved in migrations suggest leaving in compatibility mode for up to 6 > months in the case of having to revert. (I wait 3 months, with an > off-line BDC locked up and ready.) I still have the off-line BDC handy. In fact, I'm afraid to turn it off...it's just disconnected from the network. As I understand it, (and this could be completely wrong) caution is required if you are concerned that apps on DCs will fail when in native mode. But we only have one BDC with one app (IMail). We've done the whole thing in a test environment and there were not problems. We also have a few member servers that run IIS and use the domain for authentication. That should not be an issue with native mode either. But that's it. Also, I'm told by the chief AD guy on our campus that compatibility mode leaves some serious security issues (e.g. gives far more permissions that should be). In our case, our departmental AD domain is a child domain of the university-wide domain/tree/forest which is already native. And that university-wide domain will have public labs and students in it. For this reason, security is of utmost importance. And since we only have one BDC with one app, there's not much worry about problems in native mode. --Todd. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
