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Change Exchange 5.5 Server Domain

Asked by PaulADavis in Exchange Email Server

Tags: change, domain, exchange, rejoin, server

Right now we have an exchange 5.5 server running on windows 2000 server in an NT 4 domain. We also have a mixed mode A.D. in place. The NT domain is on it's way out. Right now all user and computer accounts and 98% of our servers are in the A.D. domain. Of course, we have a two way trust set up between the NT and AD domains. The user accounts used by exchange 5.5 are all in the AD domain, because of the trust set up this is not a problem.

We are thinking of upgrading to exchange 2003 and placing the exchange server in the AD domain. But that might be a while since we have to work out how much this will actually cost :-). In the meantime, I'd like to move the exchange server into the AD domain. So far i've only found info geared towards an upgrade to exchange 2000 or exchange 2003 across domains using ADMT, etc. But in this situation there will be no upgrade initially.

What I'd like to know is if I can simply remove the windows 2000 server (with exchange 5.5 on it) from the NT domain and just rejoin it to the AD domain. I realize that I would have to use the Active Directory Connector (ADC) since exchange 5.5 is not AD aware... but since we have all the mailboxes mapped to user accounts in the AD domain, how feasible would simply joining the exchange 5.5 server to the AD domain be ?

Would there be any severe consequences to doing this?
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