Mohammed method is not the correct one. You can do it if you want but you will only be sorry down the road. There are two methods which work best and they are: 1. depending on how many users are going to have, I think you said already 350 you can always have your client buy a monster machine, dual P4 XEON's 3.0Ghz 1Meg or higher, 4GB of RAM or more, and a very nice SCSI RAD system, not to mention your NIC. You would install Windows 2003 Standard or Enterprise (if standard doesn't manage your hardware needs) server first then: 1. install all the crucial windows updates 2. install VMware GSX Server (you could also use ESX Server with the above hardware) 3. setup a VM session for Win2k3 Standard with the settings you need make it AD (DC) 4. install all the crucial windows updates 5. run dcpromo and convert the server running in a VM session to AD (DC). Create a new VM session for your Exchange and do the following: 1. install all the crucial windows updates 2. install VMware GSX Server (you could also use ESX Server with the above hardware) 3. setup a VM session for Win2k3 Standard with the settings you need make it EX 4. install all the crucial windows updates 5. join the server to the AD (DC) like you join your workstations. Take the Exchange CD and pop it in the CDROM drive then on your AD (DC) run the following commands. 1. setup /forestprep 2. setup /domainprep On your EX VM session run Setup off the same CD and your done. The thing to remember is that you MUST run "update /forestprep" and "update /domainprep" on the AD (DC) with Exchange SP1 before installing it on your EX machine. As for how much resources to give your AD and EX VM machines. For offices that are 5 to 10 users you can setup AD on 256MB RAM, and 4GB hard drive, EX on 512MB RAM, and 4GB hard drive. The other method is to have two physical machines, one for AD the other for EX, it will probably cost you more in the end to buy two servers than it would to buy one monster server and run GSX or ESX from VMware on it. Regards, Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Mohammed Tantawi [mailto:mtantawi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 3:51 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: New Exchange 2003 server in existing AD/DC environment http://www.MSExchange.org/ Dear Tim, The First thing you will do is join the server to the domain with the normal way . For example if you have your domain controller with this name ( DC1) , and you have already 20 users inside this domain , all what you have to do is :- 1. Bring New PC and install on it Windows 2000 Advanced server . 2. Name this PC with this Name " mail". 3.join this PC to the domain . 4.log in to this PC with the Administrator Account ( Enterprise Administrator ). 5. Put your exchange CD in the CD Drive , and run the following command ( setup/forestprep ). 6. the same command but ( setup/domainprep ). 7. after that complete the setup Normal. 8. then restart your server ( mail ) and then you will see your exchange is working on line ) . Please test this is on the Testing Pc's only . and inform me -----Original Message----- From: Tim Jordan [mailto:tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 10 ذو القعدة, 1425 01:52 ص To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: New Exchange 2003 server in existing AD/DC environment http://www.MSExchange.org/ Most of your answers are at the Microsoft web site. The big thing is to backup because your going to be altering the AD schema when adding Exchange. So do a good work of reading first, because the order of setup is critical for you. TJ -----Original Message----- From: A. M. Salim [mailto:msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 12:21 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] New Exchange 2003 server in existing AD/DC environment http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi, One of my customers has a current, active AD and DC already installed and running in their organization but they do not have an Exchange server. Now they want to add an Exchange 2003 Standard server. They want the Exchange server to fit into the existing AD. I am used to setting up a stand-alone Exchange server in a brand new environment where I also set up the AD and DC on the same server but not this scenario with an existing and operational AD. So what is the best way to install Exchange 2003 in this scenario? How do I enable the new Exchange server in the existing AD? Once it is in the AD, how do I mail-enable selected users so their email will be going through Exchange? There will be about 350 users, is there a way to script this? TIA! 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