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Rebuilding Exchange Server

I need to rebuild an exchange server since the moron who used to work here has exchange on the Dc with FSMO roles and configured the raid as a mirror on a set of drives that does not do anything except have a single network share for IT Files... SO I need to reconfigure the RAID and I was going to rebuild the server and reload the OS. I know and am going to have to do a dcpromo to get it out of the network and all that stuff.

My question is this, is there a way for me to make an additional server as a temporary server for exchange while I rebuild the other one? Can someone point me in the right direction so I can figure out the process?

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Sometimes it is nice to have a moron around for a consultant...they help drive business.
    ...as long as that moron works for the customer and not for your company.
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Mike -
He is trying to get away from having Exchange installed on a domain controller.  Exchange should never be installed on a domain controller, if at all possible.  Exceptions to this are very small environments, which may have only one server or which may run Small Business Server.

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