Upgrade Winnt4.0 to Win2K3 with Exchg 2K3 recommendation

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Adam Apples

Hello All,

What is the best practices to upgrade our Winnt4.0 Server (PDC&BDC) to
Win2K3 servers? I have read MS recommendation white paper; but would like
your recommendation if anyone has a similar situation. I been thinking about
a FULL Clean install for both Servers to Win2K3, and Exchange 2K3 because we
only have 63 Users and 50 Mailboxes. I would also like to have a backup
Server incase the Primary goes offline for maintenance so our local Users
can authenticate.
What would be the best practice for that? A Global Catalog server? And also,
I have a Exchange 5.5 on the Backup Winnt4.0 Server (BDC). What is the best
method or migration tools anyone can recommend? I hear good things about
NetIQ for migrating our users mailbox and distributions list. Or should I do
a clean install for Exchange 2003, because we have only 50 mailboxes and 8
distributions list. Let the Users save their .Pst locally? We are currently
using Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2000. Please recommend. Thank!


Thank you in advance for your recommendation!

Adam
 
Adam said:
Hello All,

What is the best practices to upgrade our Winnt4.0 Server (PDC&BDC) to
Win2K3 servers? I have read MS recommendation white paper; but would like
your recommendation if anyone has a similar situation. I been thinking about
a FULL Clean install for both Servers to Win2K3, and Exchange 2K3 because we
only have 63 Users and 50 Mailboxes. I would also like to have a backup
Server incase the Primary goes offline for maintenance so our local Users
can authenticate.
What would be the best practice for that? A Global Catalog server? And also,
I have a Exchange 5.5 on the Backup Winnt4.0 Server (BDC). What is the best
method or migration tools anyone can recommend? I hear good things about
NetIQ for migrating our users mailbox and distributions list. Or should I do
a clean install for Exchange 2003, because we have only 50 mailboxes and 8
distributions list. Let the Users save their .Pst locally? We are currently
using Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2000. Please recommend. Thank!


Thank you in advance for your recommendation!

Adam
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Clean Install all the way. NT 4 dosn't support Active Directory, so
any "Migration" will result in a very messy AD structure. Plus the
migration takes a lot longer time.

EXMerge comes on the Exchange Server install CD. Its a very good tool
for migrating mailboxes.
 
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