It sounds as though you may have softened your opinion on moving the servers to separate domains prior to transitioning over to E2K.
Is this correct, or am I reading too much into your statement below? Nate > ---------- > From: Ed Crowley > Reply To: Exchange Discussions > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:31 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: E5.5 -> E2K migration question - Moving servers to new > domai ns. > > Continuing to use multiple sites (administrative groups) makes sense as > a transitional step because it's easiest to migrate a site to a new > administrative group. Once you're in native mode, you can then migrate > mailboxes between administrative groups, which eases the burden of > consolidating to a smaller number of them. > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I > Tech Consultant > hp Services > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Roger Seielstad > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:39 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: E5.5 -> E2K migration question - Moving servers to new > domai ns. > > > From a technical perspective then there should be no issues. The FAQ has > detailed instructions on making that change. > > I'd still argue that the complexity of adding domains and continuing to > use multiple sites should be reconsidered, however. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE > Sr. Systems Administrator > Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity > Atlanta, GA > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Couch, Nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:31 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: E5.5 -> E2K migration question - Moving servers > > to new domai ns. > > > > > > Good point Roger. I should have given more information as to > > the sites. > > The four servers are in fact in four separate sites. So the > > following is > > more accurate: > > > > Currently in DOMAIN A > > > > SERVER A SITE A > > SERVER B SITE B > > SERVER C SITE C > > SERVER D SITE D > > > > After the move > > > > SERVER A DOMAIN A SITE A > > SERVER B DOMAIN B SITE B > > SERVER C DOMAIN C SITE C > > SERVER D DOMAIN D SITE D > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:55 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: E5.5 -> E2K migration question - Moving servers > > to new domai > > ns. > > > > > > Other than they're creating more domains? Not really. > > > > I'd suggest being very clear on the downsides and > > manageability issues of > > multiple domain configurations anyway. > > > > The biggest issue, as I see it, depends on whether or not the > > boxes are in > > the same or different Exchange sites. If they're in the same > > site, it will > > work but it will be ugly. If its 4 sites, then it should be easy. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE > > Sr. Systems Administrator > > Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity > > Atlanta, GA > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Couch, Nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:13 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: E5.5 -> E2K migration question - Moving servers to > > > new domains. > > > > > > > > > One of the Admins in charge of migrating one of our customers over > > > to E2K had a question regarding moving some existing E5.5 servers to > > > new domains > > > prior to migration over to E2K so as to minimize replication. > > > I can't think > > > of anything that would indicate this would be a problem, but > > > I figured I > > > would run this by the list to be sure. > > > > > > Scenario - > > > > > > Current environment - 4 E5.5 servers with SP4 (NT 4.x with > > > SP6a) running in > > > one domain (DOMAIN A let's call it). > > > > > > For the purposes of migration they want to move three servers into > > > three existing domains. Each of these domains has a two way trust > > > with DOMAIN A. > > > > > > In short what will happen is this. > > > > > > Currently in DOMAIN A > > > > > > SERVER A > > > SERVER B > > > SERVER C > > > SERVER D > > > > > > After the move > > > > > > SERVER A DOMAIN A > > > SERVER B DOMAIN B > > > SERVER C DOMAIN C > > > SERVER D DOMAIN D > > > > > > Can anyone suggest a reason why this would NOT be a good idea? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Nate Couch > > > EDS Messaging > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > 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] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
