Can I leave a full installation for a few days after......

[surfk4t]

Folks


About to install Exchange 2000, in our Active Directory.

Because we have a Forest AD Schema with Four child domains, could I do the Forest Prep and Domain Prep, on a Wednesday, and then finish the rest of the Exchange installation (Full Server etc) on the Saturday?

Would the Active Directory start to scream wondering were the Exchange Server is?

Hope anyone can help!

Cheers

Surfk4t

 

[icvanstra]

I've done it... you should have no problem.

Essentially, you are doing nothing more than creating the parts of AD needed by Exchange.

 

[surfk4t]

Thanks

icvanstra.


I'll give a go on Wednesday!

Look out I may have further questions later, Is there anything I shuld keep a look out for?

Do I definately have to run setup /domainprep on all child domains?

Cheers

 

[justin2000]

icvanstra

You only need to do the domainprep on the domain, if you are going to install an exchange server into it - if not, don't bother until you need to.

 

[surfk4t]

icvanstra


That make life easier for me!


Thanks

 

[surfk4t]

icvanstra

Have just been reading up and found this in a microsoft .pdf file.

DomainPrep
The DomainPrep utility performs the Exchange setup tasks that require
DomainAdmin permissions; it should be run by a member of the DomainAdmin
group. You need to run DomainPrep once in each domain that contains an
Exchange 2000 server and in any domain that hosts Exchange users. (An
Exchange domain that contains mail-enabled users, but no Exchange servers, is a
user domain.) This utility creates the groups and permissions necessary for
Exchange servers to read and modify user attributes.

reading this, it looks like I'll have to run /domainprep in the child domains.

What do you think?

 

[icvanstra]

Do you have the Q article number on that?

I've got a test lab set with domain.com and child.domain.com; i've only run domain prep on the domain.com but I've created users in the child domain. I never like to needlessly apply anything to the network; but the /domainprep is not that intrusive. In other words; sure why not run it?...

 

[surfk4t]

icvanstra

Hi

The article was in a .pdf file on a technet CD.

Downloads CD tu0307b July 2003.

Called 'ForestPrep and DomainPrep.pdf'

The microsoft site link

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...familyid=DE3B8332-9C77-4D68-8744-A183CCA24C71

I would prefer not to run the domain prep in the child domains, as this would mean copying the exchange cd and sending around the country, to get the regions up to date.

Another little question, have you used LDIFDE to import user attributes ( address, reports to etc) from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000?

Cheers for your help.

 

[icvanstra]

LDIFDE ? love it!

The project I'm currently working on is not quite the same as yours... I have multiple domains utilizing a single Exchange organization. Bringing two seperate exchange 5.5 organizations into the one 2k org.

My bosses paid an outside consultant to do the first migration and then handed me a book to complete the second one... OH JOY!

Anyway: I've used the ldifde to both push and pull information with Active Directory for a while now. With a little trial and error (okay a lot of trial and error) you can manipulate anything inside of Active Directory. Warning: this also means you can screw anything up just as easily! Case Sensitivity and the '-' have been the biggest headaches...

How many different 5.5 organizations do you have?
Is your 2k org native or mixed mode?

Also, I assume you can log into the remote domains over your WAN. If your links are not very fast it may take a while, but what if you log into the domain and do the prep? Just a thought.

 

[surfk4t]

Glad to here you are having fun with LDIFDE!

Glad to you have a book! I have been given 'encouragement'!


We have one Active Directory Forest with four very naughty children! ( Regional offices - No IT Staff, just scared shitless Secretaries that are worried about anything going wrong in the IT cupboard! (It is a cupboard not a room!) )

It will all be in Native mode before the upgrade to Exchange 2000.

We currently have Exchange 5.5 one Organisation and one site. We'll keep this model for the Exchange 2000.


We were going to do a full migration, with ADC, build another Exch 5.5 move the users across and then move them back to the new WIndows 2000 and Exchange 2000 server. But we had some consultants in for a reccy and they said about lots of things going wrong, it'll have be weekend work and could take upto 2 weeks to get everything running smoothly etc again.

So I persuaded the boss, to lets start again on the exchange server. So I am going to Exmerge the mailboxes off the old exchange server. we have 100 mailboxes.

Create a new exchange server and then import the .pst backin using exmerge. Simple I thought, then my boss goes what about all the info stored on the exchange server. I thought i'll export all the address info, department info etc and then import it into Active Directory.

So any pointers would be helpful.

What book did your company buy for you?