Exchange Server

Marc R. O'Connor · Guest

HI,
I have a few questions regarding an upcoming Exchange install I will be
doing:

Currently my org uses Exchange 2k(Which was the first DC in the domain
holds all the roles, is the PDC emulator and handles WINS and DNS)for
internal messaging with Outlook XP clients on the desktops; we also have
the Outlook clients retrieving mail from a hosting company that handles
our website and 'external' mail(They have our DNS name and MX records
etc). Once the mail is downloaded it all is stored in Exchange mailboxes.

I purchased a brand new server to assume the PDC role as well as to
install Exchange 2k3 on but I am not sure if I am 'upgrading' or migrating
as I already have an existing Exchange 2k server. In the process of all
this I am trying to consolidate some servers and was wondering if this new
server could be my PDC emul., Exchange svr, Global catalog, DNS, DHCP and
WINS(not sure if I even need WINS still). Additionally I wanted set this
Exchange server up to handle ALL of our mail and do away with the hosting
company completely.

I was hoping someone could answer a few questions for me:
Can this new server running Windows 2k3 and Exchange 2k3 handle the roles
of DNS and DHCP on the same machine?

What would the proper upgrade procedure be for moving to a new server
(hardware) and a new OS/Exchange version? Any good reading material?

How should I configure the new server to handle all our mail? Our current
Active Directory domain name is not even close to our registered domain
name we use for email(external) and our website. I was thinking I could
publish the Exchnage server to my ISA server, has anyone had success with
this? And I was hoping to do some OWA as well.

Thanks in advance for any help, it is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Marc
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There's one thing I want to warn you about. DO NOT put Exchange on a
DC.

Marc R. O'Connor · Guest

Any reason why? I have set up numerous ADs with Exchnage 2000 running on a
DC(PDC emulater even)?

On 6 Jan 2005 11:54:51 -0800, <sempernovus@gmail.com> wrote:

Sheyi Adenouga [MSFT] · Guest

Mostly for performance reasons but is otherwise okay. See article 875427

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claudios · Guest

Hello.

If you install Exchange on a DC, you will have trouble with OWA. There is
some configurations to do to run ASP.NET applications on a DC. See MSKB article
315158.

Best regards.

Cláudio

Marc R. O'Connor · Guest

Great info thanks!

I will look deeper into my deploymen then.

Cheers,
Marc

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 02:40:32 -0600, Sheyi Adenouga [MSFT]
<sheyia@online.microsoft.com> wrote:

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