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I'm looking at upgrading (in-place) our exchange 5.5 box to 2000. There are 3 branches involved, each with our own exchange box (site), all within the same organization. No one is upgrading but us. We control some accounts and the two other's have their accounts, but we replicate these via smtp connector's. We have the organizations web server and are relied upon to publish certain public folder info via CDO and CDONTS. We all have different domains and user accounts. I'm assuming that our active directory user accounts will become populated with all the junk included within everyone's (all branches) exchange accounts (of course I could be wrong (on many things)). I ran NTDSAtrb and found some problems. I can't add custom attribute 10 containing the results of NTDSAtrb to accounts that aren't housed on my server. To cut this short (shorter then it could have been). Can I do an in-place upgrade like this without much contact with the other branches (We were the original branch that came up with the organization if that matters). Also the documents from Microsoft concerning the inplace upgrade don't mention at what point you upgrade the operating system, it appears that exchange 5.5 was already running on win2000 server in the documentation. Is this an option, can I upgrade the operating system to windows 2000 while running exchange 5.5? can I do this and leave it for awhile before upgrading to exchange 2000?
