Exchange 2003 into an existing 2000 network

Hi peeps,

I will be installing a new exchange server into a 2000 domain which already
has an exchange (2000) server in. I've found this migration document on the
internet
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Migrating-Exchange2000-Exchange-2003-Hardware.html
but my query is doing the adprep on the existing domain controller (2000
server) is that going to cause and future problems or will it be ok in the
log run.

David

Meinolf
Mon Jul 07 04:07:04 PDT 2008

Hello David,

Adprep command will not cause problems. It will just upgrade the schema with
new 2003 objects. It will just work or you get an error message or you have
to check the logfile for the failure, if it doesn't work. No reboot is required
with adprep command.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hi peeps,
>
> I will be installing a new exchange server into a 2000 domain which
> already has an exchange (2000) server in. I've found this migration
> document on the internet
> http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Migrating-Exchange2000-Exchange-20
> 03-Hardware.html but my query is doing the adprep on the existing
> domain controller (2000 server) is that going to cause and future
> problems or will it be ok in the log run.
>
> David
>

David
Mon Jul 07 05:05:49 PDT 2008

thought as much, don't know why i asked it really as you do the same thing
in an SBS swing migration. Thanks for your prompt reply.

"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:ff16fb66a2f3f8caae497c9f69cd@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Hello David,
>
> Adprep command will not cause problems. It will just upgrade the schema
> with new 2003 objects. It will just work or you get an error message or
> you have to check the logfile for the failure, if it doesn't work. No
> reboot is required with adprep command.
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>> Hi peeps,
>>
>> I will be installing a new exchange server into a 2000 domain which
>> already has an exchange (2000) server in. I've found this migration
>> document on the internet
>> http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Migrating-Exchange2000-Exchange-20
>> 03-Hardware.html but my query is doing the adprep on the existing
>> domain controller (2000 server) is that going to cause and future
>> problems or will it be ok in the log run.
>>
>> David
>>
>
>

Hank
Thu Jul 10 05:15:05 PDT 2008

David wrote:
> Hi peeps,
>
> I will be installing a new exchange server into a 2000 domain which already
> has an exchange (2000) server in. I've found this migration document on the
> internet
> http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Migrating-Exchange2000-Exchange-2003-Hardware.html
> but my query is doing the adprep on the existing domain controller (2000
> server) is that going to cause and future problems or will it be ok in the
> log run.
>
> David
>
>

Question is really mute. If you don't do it, you won't be able to
install Exchange 2003. Just be sure to have a backup strategy just in case.

--

Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services

Monitor
Thu Jul 10 05:29:04 PDT 2008


"Hank Arnold (MVP)" <rasilon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> David wrote:
> > Hi peeps,
> >
> > I will be installing a new exchange server into a 2000 domain which
already
> > has an exchange (2000) server in. I've found this migration document on
the
> > internet
> >
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Migrating-Exchange2000-Exchange-2003-Hardware.html
> > but my query is doing the adprep on the existing domain controller (2000
> > server) is that going to cause and future problems or will it be ok in
the
> > log run.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
>
> Question is really mute. If you don't do it, you won't be able to
> install Exchange 2003. Just be sure to have a backup strategy just in
case.
>
> Regards,
> Hank Arnold
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Server - Directory Services

"[The] Question is really mute"? Or should it be "moot"?
moot point (plural moot points)

1.. An issue that is subject to, or open for discussion or debate, and
which could only be definitively determined by an assembly of the people.
Now that downtown has been rebuilt and business is booming, whether to
build more parking spaces has become a moot point.
2.. (US) An issue regarded as potentially debatable, but no longer
practically applicable. Although the idea may still be worth debating and
exploring academically, and such a discussion may be useful for addressing
similar issues in the future, the idea has been rendered irrelevant for the
present issue.
Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a
moot point.
Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot_point