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Sukhan,
Sorry for the delay in responding. Wife was in the hospital for a couple of
days. Naturally everything else is completely forgotten and my focus is on
her! Still will be for the next couple of days.
The e-mail address that you see if your right click on my name and select
properties is correct. Probably should not have it that way but I do not
get too much spam.
--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24014
Microsoft Active Directory MVP
http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com
"sukhan" <sukhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Cary
> Thanks a lot for your reply. It's a great help that you extended. We are
> in
> planning phase now. Your plan makes a good sense to me. I am working on
> figuring out the best way to do all this upgrade. Either active directory
> first or excahnge first.
> I am waiting for the response from the exchange group that you posted to
> see
> what they say.
> Can I have your email address so that I can communicate you directly just
> in
> case if get into problems.
> Thanks again for your help.
>
>
> "Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]" wrote:
>
>> This question would be much better suited in the Active Directory news
>> group
>> as well as the Exchange Admin news group.
>>
>> Post it there and I am sure that you will get lots of answers.
>>
>> I would suggest that this is not a simple undertaking and should be done
>> by
>> someone with the necessary experience. If you are asking these questions
>> you are *probably* not that person.....well, not at the moment. Please
>> understand that I am not trying to be harsh or rude. This is a
>> significant
>> undertaking. I would hate for you to find yourself in a very bad
>> situation.....
>>
>> Here is one way for you to do this:
>>
>> First you would have to run adprep /forestprep ( located on the WIN2003
>> Server CD ) on the Domain Controller that holds the fsmo role of Schema
>> Admin using a user account object that is a member of the Schema Admins.
>> Let that replicate throughout the forest.....this may take some time. I
>> am
>> assuming that you have properly set up Sites and Services via the Active
>> Directory Sites and Services MMC.
>>
>> Then you would want to run adprep /forestprep on the Domain Controller
>> that
>> holds the fsmo role of PDC Emulator in each domain using a user account
>> object that is a member of the Domain Admins. It sounds like you have
>> only
>> one domain and are making good use of Sites and Services ( I hope that I
>> am
>> assuming correctly and if I am then that is a very good thing! ). Let
>> this
>> replicate to all Domain Controllers throughout each domain.
>>
>> You might then want to run the fix for the 'Mangled Attributes' that can
>> occur if you are running a WIN2000 AD environment with Exchange 2000 and
>> use
>> adprep to prepare the domain for the introduction of a WIN2003 Domain
>> Controller. Please see the following MSKB Article:
>>
>>
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314649
>>
>>
>> Let this replicate throughout the forest. Again, this could take a good
>> while to do.
>>
>> You could then either introduce a WIN2003 Domain Controller or upgrade
>> the
>> DC that holds the fsmo role of Schema Master ( er, or would the PDC
>> Emulator
>> be the wiser choice? ).
>>
>> I would ask about Exchange in the Exchange Admin news group.
>>
>> I know that you asked about an upgrade. I have not done this so I am
>> simply
>> speculating that what I suggested above would be a proper approach ( er,
>> only regarding the 'upgrade the DC that holds the fsmo role of Schema
>> Master' part ). Please verify this with the Microsoft documentation and
>> with those who have actually done this!
>>
>> I have cc:ed the two news groups that I suggested at the top of this post
>> so
>> that you do not have to duplicate anything.....
>>
>> --
>> Cary W. Shultz
>> Roanoke, VA 24014
>> Microsoft Active Directory MVP
>>
>>
http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
>>
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "sukhan" <sukhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6B6FA5DC-8855-4D61-B8C1-86D9F425CBD7@microsoft.com...
>> > Well here are some questions for the Microsoft gurus:
>> >
>> >
>> > 1) We are having 5 domain controllers. Two in suburb one in
>> > Downtown,
>> > One in Singapore and one in Barcelona.. All running windows 2000
>> > server.
>> >
>> > 2) We are running exchange 2000 in a cluster here running under
>> > two
>> > nodes.
>> >
>> > We have to upgrade the system here with 2003. Should we do the exchange
>> > first or the Active directory and what would be the order. How can we
>> > implement the whole upgrade? Any help would we greatly appreciated.
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>