I'm really sorry if that email just went off the sides of your screen. I hope that (a) youknow the answer to my question and (b) you will read my message now (damn computers!):
Hi all, I wonder if any of you have encountered this problem and can advise my best course of action: I have an Exchange 2007 Standard Edition server in a single domain environment, running on Windows Server 2003 R2 x64. There was a Windows Server 2003 domain controller with all the FSMO roles and was a Global Catalog server, which I was hoping to decommission. So I dcpromo'd and transferred the FSMO roles to a new domain controller and I am happy that all the replication has occurred and the new DC is fully functional according to all Microsoft's tests. ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816106) However, on my Exchange server, the old domain controller is still listed in the following places: Microsoft Exchange \ Server Configuration \ Server Properties \ "System Settings" tab \ Active Directory servers \ "Domain controller servers being used by Exchange" & "Global catalog servers being used by Exchange". So I shut down the old DC and almost immediately Exchange stopped working (mailboxes unavailable, no OWA, no services, nothing). As soon as I brought the old DC back up, Exchange worked again. The next step was to shut down the old DC, then restart the Exchange services, but they failed to start. I tried a reboot of the whole server, which then hung on "Applying computer settings". As soon as I brought the old DC back online and then rebooted the Exchange server, everything was fine. As you know, the "Domain controller servers being used by Exchange" & "Global catalog servers being used by Exchange" settings in the above location are not configurable. My question is this: how can I make my Exchange server move on into the brave future with me and the new Domain controller? I really do need to decommission the old one. All help gratefully received. Many thanks and kind regards, Andrew Levicki 2009/10/13 Andrew Levicki <and...@levicki.me.uk> > Hi all, I wonder if any of you have encountered this problem and can advise > my best course of action: > I have an Exchange 2007 Standard Edition server in a single domain > environment, running on Windows Server 2003 R2 x64. There was a Windows > Server 2003 domain controller with all the FSMO roles and was a Global > Catalog server, which I was hoping to decommission. > > So I dcpromo'd and transferred the FSMO roles to a new domain controller > and I am happy that all the replication has occurred and the new DC is fully > functional according to all Microsoft's tests. ( > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816106) > > However, on my Exchange server, the old domain controller is still listed > in the following places: > Microsoft Exchange \ Server Configuration \ Server Properties \ "System > Settings" tab \ Active Directory servers \ "Domain controller servers > being used by Exchange" & "Global catalog servers being used by Exchange". > > So I shut down the old DC and almost immediately Exchange stopped working > (mailboxes unavailable, no OWA, no services, nothing). As soon as I brought > the old DC back up, Exchange worked again. > > The next step was to shut down the old DC, then restart the Exchange > services, but they failed to start. I tried a reboot of the whole server, > which then hung on "Applying computer settings". As soon as I brought the > old DC back online and then rebooted the Exchange server, everything was > fine. > > As you know, the "Domain controller servers being used by Exchange" & > "Global catalog servers being used by Exchange" settings in the above > location are not configurable. > > My question is this: how can I make my Exchange server move on into the > brave future with me and the new Domain controller? I really do need to > decommission the old one. > > All help gratefully received. > > Many thanks and kind regards, > > Andrew Levicki >
