Thoughts on Exchange 2003 cluster configuration

[keepsmilin456]

Current config:
Windows 2000 Domain Controllers
7 front/back end stand-alone MS Exchange 2003 on Windows 2000 Server OS.

I've done enough research on planning/implementing the upgrade and am in the process creating a test environment and was wondering if anyone has come across any hurdles building Windows 2003 Server w/ Exchange 2003 on a Windows 2000 domain?

 

[jmurfin]

Hi,

No major snafus, although I installed E2k3 on new clustered Win2k3 boxes (in a Win2k domain environment), a bit differentthan you. Getting Groupshield installed correctly on a cluster was an interesting treat.

 

[keepsmilin456]

Thanks for your reply. Another question. I've pretty much received all the hardware for the test environment and am in the process of building it.

How do I go about configuring exchange for a test environment? I can't seem to find many articles on the net discussing this. Obviously this test environment will have NO outside connectivity, just only internal for the public/private/iSCSI connectivity.

DNS/MX Records????

 

[keepsmilin456]

Got the exchange test environment up & running. Anyone recommend any tools to create hundreds or thousands of mailboxes and messages in a exchange environment? I would like to test our cluster in a high mail usage test environment.

Thanks in advance

 

[SNATCHMASTER]

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