Are you HAPPY??

[A15]

My company is still running NT and Exchange 5.5
Recently we looked into upgrading to Exchange 2003.

I would like to get you feedback as to how long have you been running the exchange 2003 on what OS (2k or 2003)
and if you recommend the upgrade???

Thank you all for your respond.

 

[gmcdonnell]

I absolutely love Exchange 2000/2003. We're running 2003 for development and testing on Windows 2003. It's great. We have had it up for about 2 months. We've had Exchange 2000 on Windows 2000 in production since it was first available and have been very happy with it as well.

Gary McDonnell

http://turbogeeks.com

 

[A15]

Thanks for your response

 

[pachucos]

We are in the process of upgrading to Exchange 2k3 with Windows 2k3 now. So far we love it. can't wait to get rid of exchange 5.5 and Windows NT 4.0. We had a test enviroment for the last 3 months and it worked great. We are just about done just needing to finish the last few mailbox moves.

 

[A15]

If you don't mind please give me some information regarding the move?
from how many NT servers to 2k3 servers??
How did you installed the exchange and moved your mailboxes??

Thanks.

 

[pachucos]

We have 7 servers running a mix of NT4 and 2000. We purchased new equipment for all the NT4 servers so the will be retired when 2k3 is installed. as for Exchange we purchased a new server installed Windows 2k3 and Exchange 2k3 we have been replicating over the public folders to the new server and been moveing the mailboxes by departments on the weekends, via active directory, and it has been working out great.

 

[pchan]

Has anyone integrated exchange 2003 with a 2000 AD environment? What are the drawbacks if any?

 

[TomLet]

pchan,

I am running Exchange 2k3 on Windows 2k3 in a Win 2k AD. After extending the AD schema, which went very smoothly, we have had no problems at all. The system has been rock solid since implementation. I have found no drawbacks.

Tom

 

[amorielljr]

We are running Exchange 2003 on Windows 2000 AD. As far as problems I have not run into any, the extension of the scheme went great and it runs awesome. There are a couple of consideration though if you are going to do this.

1. You will not be able to use RPC over HTTP (this allows you to be sitting on the internet and use Outlook to directly connect into exchange without VPN). To use this you must be running XP Pro with Outlook 2003 and a Windows 2003 global catalog (this basically means that you are running a Windows 2003 AD domain for most people, although it is possible to have a Win2k domain with the Windows 2003 GC. This requires an indepth knowledge of configuration dealing the the domain controllers and GCs.
2. You will not get the compression (which microsoft claims will reduce your exchange traffic by as much as 90%) between Outlook and Exchange (requires 2003 AD, XP pro, and Outlook 2003).