Hello,
You need AD deployed first. Good posts in this list's archive on this subject. MS has some good white papers in the technet section and elsewhere: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/deployment/2000/default.asp I "labed" our migration many times over many months, and things always went well. The production migration didn't go as well. Primarily, I'm left with a strange Distribution Group problem that I can't nest them or use them to restrict who can send to a Distribution Group. They get stuck in the directory lookup queue with a "Categorizer" error. MS PSS has been looking at it for a month. If I had to do it over again I think I'd setup an entirely new AD domain, E2K environment, and NOT do "in-place" upgrades. It worked great in the lab ... not saying it can't. But I wouldn't do it again. Why do you want to upgrade anyway? We have somewhat of a mandate to be running "new stuff", but for a small organization like ours (single site, 1 domain, < 2,000 users, small tech admin group,...), it sure hasn't lowered our TCO. The loss of Exchange 5.5 Import/Export is a real bummer, among other things. Brent -----Original Message----- From: kukar kothari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Monday, January 14, 2002 3:34 PM Posted To: MS Exchange List Conversation: Migration to Exchange 2000 Subject: Migration to Exchange 2000 Dear All, I am new to Exchange and have a couple of q's about migration to E2K. Can I build and deploy an E2k Server in NT4 domain now and eventually migrate to Windows 2000 AD domain at a later stage. Is it necessary to have Active Directory Installed in order to migrate from Exchange 55 sp4 to E2K. Thanks Kukar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
