Brand New Environment   

I have a client with a new AD environment.  They are unsure of whether they 
want Exchange 2003 or 2007 (depends on a CRM solution they are looking at).  
However, before I start migrating users and services to the new domain, I 
would like to prep the environment for Exchange.  If I prep for Exchange 
2007, can I still install Exchange 2003 into this environment?

date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:38:01 -0700   author:   kj2n

Re: Brand New Environment   

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:38:01 -0700, kj2n
 wrote:

>I have a client with a new AD environment.  They are unsure of whether they 
>want Exchange 2003 or 2007 (depends on a CRM solution they are looking at).  
>However, before I start migrating users and services to the new domain, I 
>would like to prep the environment for Exchange.  If I prep for Exchange 
>2007, can I still install Exchange 2003 into this environment?

Why a new domain? 
And no, you cannot install 2003 into a fresh forest that has been
prepped for 2007 only.

date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:47:41 +0100   author:   Mark Arnold [MVP]

Re: Brand New Environment   

The client has 7 domains (NT, 2000 and 2003), no trust relationships, a Linux 
e-mail solution and is having a hard time managing it (multiple user accounts 
in multiple domains, as well as other systems).  The current state of any one 
of the domains is not great.  Best solution was to start from scratch and 
migrate everything to the new envronment.

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:38:01 -0700, kj2n
>  wrote:
> 
> >I have a client with a new AD environment.  They are unsure of whether they 
> >want Exchange 2003 or 2007 (depends on a CRM solution they are looking at).  
> >However, before I start migrating users and services to the new domain, I 
> >would like to prep the environment for Exchange.  If I prep for Exchange 
> >2007, can I still install Exchange 2003 into this environment?
> 
> Why a new domain? 
> And no, you cannot install 2003 into a fresh forest that has been
> prepped for 2007 only.
>

date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:56:03 -0700   author:   kj2n

Re: Brand New Environment   

PS - thanks for the Exc07 prep information.

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:38:01 -0700, kj2n
>  wrote:
> 
> >I have a client with a new AD environment.  They are unsure of whether they 
> >want Exchange 2003 or 2007 (depends on a CRM solution they are looking at).  
> >However, before I start migrating users and services to the new domain, I 
> >would like to prep the environment for Exchange.  If I prep for Exchange 
> >2007, can I still install Exchange 2003 into this environment?
> 
> Why a new domain? 
> And no, you cannot install 2003 into a fresh forest that has been
> prepped for 2007 only.
>

date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:57:00 -0700   author:   kj2n

Re: Brand New Environment   

Great, seven collapsed into one.
Thems is numbers I like.

date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:01:55 +0100   author:   Mark Arnold [MVP]