Exchange is highly integrated with Active Directory. As such, when you make any changes to your Exchange structure or Active Directory structure, you must plan well and carefully. You are changed both Exchange and Active Directory, so you must take triple care to do it correctly. I have to run, but you really need to spend time doing more research and thinking this through. What you are planning is going to lead to problems. John T eServices For You -----Original Message----- From: sunil shah [mailto:sunny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:42 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Move or Upgrade to 2003 http://www.MSExchange.org/ I am sorry for making more confusion. What I want to accomplish is move exchange to newly bought server and remove it from the old one (running windows 2000 and Exchange 2000).and thanks John for explaining I have read it.and you are right about DNS and AD. Any Idea on that.Hope I have simplified it.. But would not my AD on Windows 2003, because I have join with windows 2000 AD as a Domain Controller? Any Idea on that.Hope I have simplified it.. After I accomplish the above one.Oh Yeah I can run inplace upgrade on windows 2000 to windows 2003. Am I right or wrong????? _____ From: John T (Lists) [mailto:johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:21 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Move or Upgrade to 2003 http://www.MSExchange.org/ I think if you read your idea, you will see a major flaw there: You say you currently have one single server running AD, DNS, IIS, Exchange and Veritas. Then you are going to bring up a new server, join it to the existing domain, install Exchange 2003 on it and migrate users to it. Then you are going to 86 and rebuild your one existing server. Uh, what is going to be your AD and DNS server? (And please do not say the new server. You want to make things simpler, not more complex.) John T eServices For You -----Original Message----- From: sunil shah [mailto:sunny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 5:37 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Move or Upgrade to 2003 http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi to All, Here is my story - My Company bought new hardware and they want to move current exchange 2000 to new hardware. Currently, we are running one server with AD, DNS, IIS, Exchange and Veritas backup 9. I am thinking as following. (1) Installed Windows 2003 and Join the current domain (2) Apply all the service pack and patches to new Windows 2003 (3) Installed exchange 2003 in existing Exchange 2000 organization (4) Apply latest service pack to Exchange 2003 (5) Create New Storage on this new server (6) Move Mail box to new storage (7) Let all the users log in and update there profiles (8) Change my MX record to point to new server (9) Remove my old server and reinstall windows 2003 on it and move my IIS and DNS on that server Any Pitfall in the above procedure guys and girls? Any suggestion or advice will be greatly appreciated Sunny(Shyamal) ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: sunny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx