RE: Demoting Win2000 server with Exchange 2000

  • From: "John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)" <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'[ExchangeList]'" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:00:57 -0700

No. In Exchange, did you check to see what Exchange is using? Not in AD.

In System Manager, server properties, Directory Access.

John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vadim Shulaev [mailto:vshulaev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:02 AM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Demoting Win2000 server with Exchange 2000
> 
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
> 
> Yes, i did go through the AD and made sure that DC server with Exchange
> running, doesn't have GC selected in it. I check it in NTDS settings.
> Also, i only have one site in domain.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:54 AM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Demoting Win2000 server with Exchange 2000
> 
> 
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
> 
> Actually, the problems you are having may be because Exchange is still
> seeing that server as a GC.
> 
> Have you gone through the Exchange configuration and made sure it was
> using
> the correct server as a GC?
> 
> BTW, it is only one GC per site. If you have one domain but multiple
> sites,
> you would want a GC in each site.
> 
> John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA
> Engineer/Consultant
> eServices For You
> www.eservicesforyou.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vadim Shulaev [mailto:vadim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:35 AM
> > To: [ExchangeList]
> > Subject: [exchangelist] Demoting Win2000 server with Exchange 2000
> >
> > http://www.MSExchange.org/
> >
> > I have been thinking about it for a while now...
> > I have Exchange 2000 sp3 running on 2K server which is also DC2 in the
> > domain. It is not a GC or anything, just a secondary DC in the domain.
> > I installed DC on the server first and then Exchange software.
> > Everything seems to running good, except i have some replication
> issues
> > with GC DC. Someone previously made both of the DC's GC and AD was
> getting
> > confused, but i made the chages back as you can have only one GC
> server
> > per domain.
> >
> > Now i am having all kinds of "strange" issues with replication and i
> was
> > wondering if i can demote this server to memeber server, remove AD
> from it
> > and later on proote it back to DC. This should cleanup my connections
> and
> > regenerate them again.
> >
> > If i do demote this server which has Exch2000 on it, will the mail
> server
> > sill work without DC on it??? Have anyone done this before???
> >
> > Vadim.
> >
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