All, I'm running in a 2000 domain with Exchange 2000 enterprise running on a 2000 member server. I need to do an in place upgrade to Exchange 2003 enterprise. Can I run the domain and forest prep from the cd while on the Exchange server or do I have to run the two commands from one of the 2000 domain controllers? Running these two prep utilities will not effect my 2000 domain will it? It just adds the needed Exchange 2003 onjects correct? I have already ran dcdiag and netdiag with good results. Thanks in advance for your advice.
Hi, You can run the /forestprep and /domainprep from either the exchange server or on one of the domain controllers. These won't affect your windows 2000 active directory (except for expanding the schema and setting some exchange related permissions). Leif "Candie" wrote in message news:C5BD22F3-82C1-4AFD-BBCE-BCD260DC90D0@microsoft.com... > All, I'm running in a 2000 domain with Exchange 2000 enterprise running on > a > 2000 member server. I need to do an in place upgrade to Exchange 2003 > enterprise. Can I run the domain and forest prep from the cd while on the > Exchange server or do I have to run the two commands from one of the 2000 > domain controllers? Running these two prep utilities will not effect my > 2000 > domain will it? It just adds the needed Exchange 2003 onjects correct? I > have > already ran dcdiag and netdiag with good results. Thanks in advance for > your > advice.
