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Implementation of Active Directory & MS-Exchange

Posted by Avinash Pillai on 02/11/2008 12:51:00 PM

In brief the steps are shown below. I did the migration from exchange 5.5 to exchange 2003 same time Windows NT PDC to Active Directory 2003 for 3000 mailboxes.

1) Upgrade the same OS on the NT PDC Server to an Windows 2000/2003 Server
2) Configure the same Server as the Active Directory Server(This will pick up all the PDC DB by default)
3) By Default the AD Site will be in mixed mode. ( Dont change from domain from mixed modeuntil you completely migrate exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000/2003/2007) )
4) Install Active Directory Connector (ADC) on the AD server so that the Active Directory can talk to Exchange 5.5 and vise versa.
5) Install Exchange 2003 on another system in the same forest and same exchange organisation where the Exchange 5.5 excists.
6) Move mailboxes from Exchange 5.5 to new Exchange 2003 one by one ( this help us to analyse errors, if any while moving mailboxes)
7) Once all mailboxes moved completely, demote the exchange 5.5 from the excisting exchange organisation ( Its pretty easy )
8) Disconnect the AD Connector once exchnage 5.5 is removed.
Thats all :) Good Luck

Thanks & Regards
Avinash Pillai
URL : http://avinashpillai.blogspot.com
Email: avinashp[AT]aztecsoft[DOT]com, avinashp25[AT]gmail[DOT]com

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From: PARVESH via ms-exchange-l
Sent: Mon 2/11/2008 2:30 AM
To: avinashp

Subject: Re: [ms-exchange-l] Implementation of Active Directory & MS-Exchange
SURE friend, hope I can do something for u ..... as u said that u have win nt server with exchange 5.5 server running overseas then one thing is clear that you would have the new version of exchange in compatibility mode (mixed-mode) so that your older type of clients could stay connected ...second you ll have an adc installed so that your older versions of exchange 5.5 can get connected to active directory .....and third most important thing i ll suggest you is abt sites and replication ....you ll have to go through active directory sites and services to maintain replication to / from overseas ....this is the brief of your requirements ....while i havent gone through exchange 2007 yet so i can t comment on that ... but i know exchange 2k3 is quite capable of doing your job ......hope for the best
thanks (hoping this helps u a lil bit)
Parvesh Paliwal (+91 9813092374)
N+, MCSE, CCNA, CWNA
India
nielljohnson via ms-exchange-l wrote:
Hi, we have 6 offices in USA and 1 office in India and 1 office in Malayasia. Would like to implement MS-Windows 2003 Server for Active Directory and MS-Exchange 2007 for Emails / Blackberry. The USA offices uses MS-Windows NT Server and MS-Exchange 5.5 whereas India / Malayasia offices uses MS-Windows 2000 Server and MS-Exchange 2000. How can we can have (1). centralized and, (2). decentralized model working. Recently, our company has gone through a name change. We would also like to switch newer domain as well as email IDs. Request if someone can help me understand various cost-effective ways to do this.
Cheers
Niell __.____._
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