Win2K/Ex2K3 and dcpromo

Brian McGrew · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 12

Good morning all:

I've got two servers. #1 is a Win2K DC running AD, DNS, DHCP and RAS. #2
is a Win2K DC running Wins and Exchange 2003.

I'm expanding my network and building two new Win2K3 DC's. Server #1
doesn't bother me but server #2 does... Can I safely dcpromo an Exchange
server to not be a DC anymore??? It is the only Exchange server in the
site???

Thanks

-brian
brian at visionpro dot com

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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 875

Brian McGrew wrote:
> Good morning all:
>
> I've got two servers. #1 is a Win2K DC running AD, DNS, DHCP and
> RAS. #2 is a Win2K DC running Wins and Exchange 2003.
>
> I'm expanding my network and building two new Win2K3 DC's. Server #1
> doesn't bother me but server #2 does... Can I safely dcpromo an
> Exchange server to not be a DC anymore??? It is the only Exchange
> server in the site???
>
> Thanks
>
> -brian
> brian at visionpro dot com

Good thing you checked! Never dcpromo a server running Exchange - you'll
break it. If you don't want Exchange on a DC, install it on a member server,
move mailboxes & replicate PFs, then follow the procedures to cleanly remove
the first server & uninstall Exchange.

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