question on migration

[stevenriz]

Hi, I'm just looking for suggestions and thoughts.

Currently we have an NT 4.0 domain with a couple servers connected. A Primary PDC and Secondary PDC. I got the OK to upgrade Exchange to Exchange 2003 on a new server and everything. What would you suggest?

Could or would I make the new Exchange server a brand new Windows 2003 AD primary? Or would you just make that new 2003 server a member of the NT domain?

One key detail I need to be able to do is migrate users slowly instead of over a weekend. Like a few a day or something like that.

 

[ReadRight]

I'm in the middle of doing kinda the same thing, only I have a 5.5 server in a mixed Server2000 Server2003 environment. We'll probably be seeing a lot of each other here in the next couple of weeks 8)

I can tell you off the top that Exchange 2003 won't run in an NT4 domain. You will have to implement AD for sure. Search for the Microsoft Exchange Deployment Guide, I DL'd it as a word file. It's very helpful to get your planning started.

 

[Spirit]

Exchange 2k3 will only work in an AD domain no ifs no buts!

What you'll probably need to do is to create a new domain and new excahgen etc then create a nice trust between the old and new.

That way you will be able to test the conection and access gradually rather than BANG in a weekend, but then this approach only works if you have spare server capacity.

But then again I like clean installs over upgrades.

Iain

 

[ReadRight]

Still got the link on my desktop, here you go:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...19-c7b3-42d1-8fbb-fe6339ffa1ed&DisplayLang=en