Breaking up a WAN

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as the result of a company purchase I have inherited a Win 2K branch site
that was on a WAN, the sever needs to be converted to stand alone rather than
having it refering to remote sites for things like global catalog services.
The other sites have already been disconnected
The server also runs Exchange 5.5
What is the best way to convert the server to standalone, will simply
rerunning the server set up and selecting Stand Alone Server work
 
Sorry, but that's a huge question, not one that can probably be
intelligently answered here. There are many factors you haven't mentioned
and probably more than any of us can think of in order to ensure that this
is a safe course of action.

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Richard
All links were summarily severed by the outgoing parties.
Basically the current users can still login read their mail and access files
I need to be able to set up new users & generally manage the site,
unfortunately its one of those sites with no documentation & has been through
a miriad of network managers. A real minefield.
Have you had any experiance with WAN sites that have lost their connections
for extended periods of time?
Do you think the site will remain stable under these conditions?
Greg

Richard G. Harper said:
Sorry, but that's a huge question, not one that can probably be
intelligently answered here. There are many factors you haven't mentioned
and probably more than any of us can think of in order to ensure that this
is a safe course of action.

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* for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to.
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Greg said:
as the result of a company purchase I have inherited a Win 2K branch site
that was on a WAN, the sever needs to be converted to stand alone rather
than
having it refering to remote sites for things like global catalog
services.
The other sites have already been disconnected
The server also runs Exchange 5.5
What is the best way to convert the server to standalone, will simply
rerunning the server set up and selecting Stand Alone Server work
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Greg said:
Richard
All links were summarily severed by the outgoing parties.
Basically the current users can still login read their mail and access files
I need to be able to set up new users & generally manage the site,
unfortunately its one of those sites with no documentation & has been through
a miriad of network managers. A real minefield.
Have you had any experiance with WAN sites that have lost their connections
for extended periods of time?
Do you think the site will remain stable under these conditions?
Click to expand...

If they can still log in and get to resources and get to their mail on
Exchange, then they already have thier own DC (still in place) and therefore
the WAN Services that are now gone did not give them critical network
services,...at least as far as Windows Domain Networking is concerned.
Business Applications are a separate issue. You would use the existing DC
to add/remove users and manage the site.

A Stand-Alone Server network is a contradition of terms in a way,...such a
thing would be very unmanageable and and would be particularly bad with
Exchange. Any other kind of "migration" might be too much to deal with in a
newsgroup message, as Richard said.

Issues with Exchange are best asked in one of the Exchange Groups,...but if
you don't explain it clearly and acurately to them you may get all kinds of
incorrect answers, that if followed,..will create a diaster. It won't be
their fault, they can only answer based on what you tell them.
 
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