adding exchange 5.5 to a windows 2000 server

[scoobydoo26]

I have an exchange 5.5 server currently running on an old NT 4.0 machine. I'm setting up a new box with 2000 installed and plan on installing exchange 5.5 and moving the mailboxes over to the new machine. To verify....i can just install exchange in the same site and org as the other and move the boxes correct?

If i use this windows 2000 server as an additional domain controller for fault tolerance and run exchange 5.5 on it will there be any performance problems ? Exchange is simply storing all user mail that the clients receive from an ISP. It is also used for internal mail.

 

[AlexIT]

Follow the steps for "Moving exchange to a new computer of the same name" (look for this on technet, I forget the Q#)and you can just dump the old databases onto the new Exchange server and run with it. Exchange is a resource hog, so you may want this to be a member server only, not a secondary domain controller. Check the mailbox sizes and number of e-mails per hour your server deals with, and then you can decide this accordingly.

Alex

 

[scoobydoo26]

thanks Alex,

i'll take a look at the article, i remember coming across it but didn't save it. I'll monitor the server's hourly e-mails but i don't think that will be too much of an issue. I have 30 users on the network.


thanks again for the reply

 

[shak]

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en/55/help/default.asp