Bringing R2 into 2K Domain, Quick Q's.

[Duran]

Hello,

Today I am bringing a 2003 R2 server into my windows 2000 domain and promoting it to a DC.

At the moment the 2K DC that holds the FSMO roles also runs Exchange 2003, should I stop the Exchange services while I run Adprep?

Somebody said I wouldnt need to run adprep if exchange 2003 is already on it (the 2k DC), I believe you still have to run it as the adprep from exchange is slightly different from the R2 2003 adprep, am I right?

Having run both adprep's, joined the R2 machine to the domain and promoted it, will moving the FSMO roles off the 2000 DC running Exchange 2003 break anything?

I have done most of these things before, but never when an exchange server has been running on a 2000 DC, I have always kept Exchange on a member server, will do so again eventually. I'm being extra cautious.

Thanks for any help. Really appreciated.

Kind Regards,
D.



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[ntinlin]

You do need to run ADPrep, and from the 2nd CD of the R2 server pack.

Moving the roles should not cause any problems with Exchange. Shouldn't need to stop Exchange while you do it either. All the prep does is extend the Schema.

Neill