Good morning all: I've got two servers. #1 is a Win2K DC running AD, DNS, DHCP and RAS. #2 is a Win2K DC running Wins and Exchange 2003. I'm expanding my network and building two new Win2K3 DC's. Server #1 doesn't bother me but server #2 does... Can I safely dcpromo an Exchange server to not be a DC anymore??? It is the only Exchange server in the site??? Thanks -brian brian at visionpro dot com
Brian McGrew wrote: > Good morning all: > > I've got two servers. #1 is a Win2K DC running AD, DNS, DHCP and > RAS. #2 is a Win2K DC running Wins and Exchange 2003. > > I'm expanding my network and building two new Win2K3 DC's. Server #1 > doesn't bother me but server #2 does... Can I safely dcpromo an > Exchange server to not be a DC anymore??? It is the only Exchange > server in the site??? > > Thanks > > -brian > brian at visionpro dot com Good thing you checked! Never dcpromo a server running Exchange - you'll break it. If you don't want Exchange on a DC, install it on a member server, move mailboxes & replicate PFs, then follow the procedures to cleanly remove the first server & uninstall Exchange.
