Just had a question. I know there are issues with ad getting corrupted if you upgrade an win2k domain wtih exchange 2000 to a 2003 domain. Is there any issues with having exchange 2003 running on a 2000 domain and upgrading the domain to 2003 so they are both at the same level?
"Jeff T" wrote in message news:1CCF34E1-A627-4294-865A-7054FF10463E@microsoft.com... > Just had a question. I know there are issues with ad getting corrupted if > you > upgrade an win2k domain wtih exchange 2000 to a 2003 domain. Is there any > issues with having exchange 2003 running on a 2000 domain and upgrading > the > domain to 2003 so they are both at the same level? Generally no. Practically never happens. Nothing is perfect so I put in the words "generally" and "practically" and NOT because I really think there are exceptions to this. Certainly not in my own experience. Actually, AD practically (there I go again) never gets corrupted short of bad disk drives/controllers. Even then it is very unlikely. You will have to deal with Schema (ADPrep) issues to DO the upgrade but it is a very safe operation. You also SHOULD (read: MUST) perform backups before you do this, but truthfully this recommendation is mostly just to ensure your backups are up to date which they should be anyway. (System State backup is how you backup AD.) Also note: You are in FAR MORE danger of losing AD to a disk failures or even (separately) to virus and trojans than to an upgrade problem. -- Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP Accelerated MCSE http://www.LearnQuick.Com [phone number on web site]
