Exch2007 Enterprise on 2003 SBS

[gurner]

I am being tasked soon with installing an Exch Enterprise 2007 server, to a customer that is going to host a variety of email suffixes. This customer is running an SBS 2003 domain.

I have read an excellant looking set of articles about doing this, but they all include installing the OS as win2k3 member server, but because Exchange needs a 2003 DC and it cant find the SBS DC, you then DCPromo it, pull over some roles, install Exchange, pass the roles back, and keep it as a secondary DC

This sounds plausible and ok, but i was under the impression you couldn't add a 2k3 server to an SBS domain as a 2nd DC, the instructions say add it as a DC in and existing domain.

Or am i confusing adding a 2k3 member server to an existing domain as a 2nd DC with adding a 2nd SBS Server to an SBS domain, with the prior OK and the LATER the one that cant be done?

Any tips or pointers/urls would be cool, i think i have it down, but it was my concerns about DCPromo'ing to an existing SBS domain.

Cheers

Gurner

 

[MarkArnold]

You can have another DC with 2003 SBS.

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials...-Small-Business-Server-2003-domain-Part1.html

and the part 2 article will fix you right up but I suspect that you've probably already seen it.

 

[gurner]

cool, that is one of the articles i read yeah

glad to hear another DC can be added, i try to avoid sbs, and had never tried dcpromo'ing another server, i just knew you couldn't have another sbs server



Gurner

 

[Zelandakh]

SBS servers HAVE to have certain FSMO roles or they shut themselves down. But adding additional normal Windows servers is entirely fine.

 

[58sniper]

Just as an FYI, I'm not aware of running E2k7 in an SBS 2003 scenario being supported by Microsoft.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP

 

[Zelandakh]

Exchange 2007 server in a domain where the DC is on SBS2003 should be supported Pat. Have you got a link to show it not being supported?

I've got a site doing just that and in fact it is working rather well

 

[ForumKB]

I think Pat's right, it works but Microsoft won't 'support it' (like they support anything anyway, that's what here for!!), I am assuming you'll be installing the exchange on the 2nd DC or a third W2K3 member server (best option) not the SBS server?


Adrian Paris

Paris Engineering Ltd

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(very useful, honest!)

 

[gurner]

yeah, i was gonna stick it on the 2nd DC.

i havent called MS support for 6 years, and used the newsgroups for 4 years.

Google. Tek-Tips and common sense/logic and a fair bit of old fashion investigation has always got me by

Gurner

 

[MarkArnold]

Adrian, it's Exchange 2007. He couldn't install it onto the SBS server even if he wanted to. Unless of course he wanted to stick the 32bit testing version of 2007 onto the SBS box and then we'd all step a heck of a long way from this thread.

And yeah, Microsoft are often like insurance. They tell you you're insured for everything except the thing that actually went wrong.

 

[ForumKB]

Adrian, it's Exchange 2007. He couldn't install it onto the SBS server even if he wanted to"

. . . good point well made, it is friday afternoon so i'll see myself out . . .


Adrian Paris

Paris Engineering Ltd

http://www.ForumKB.com

Google search of just tech forums & articles
(very useful, honest!)

 

[Zelandakh]

That wouldn't be Exchange of course. Bulletproof I tell you.

And there's a 64 bit SBS coming....just listen to the SBS boys say how they invented the wheel and us big boys were just the beta testers for Exchange.

 

[gurner]

no install yet, was looking forward to starting tomorrow the server is to be a co-lo dedicated server at our DCentre, but when the end user asked what time i would be migrating the DSL at their head office, i found our sales guys had passed the mac code and telephone number to provisioning only just now (1 day before i was due to install a xDsl at head office and vpn it to the co-lo facility apparently)

Mmm... i dont think BT move in those sort of time scales for a migration, and im full for anther 2 weeks yet, ha

good old sales

Gurner