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Promoting an esisting Exchange Server to a DC
I have a Windows 2003 AD infrastructure in place with Exchange 2003 loaded on a member server. I would like to promote the Exchange 2003 server to a domain controller (for disaster recovery purposes) but do not know if that is possible. Can this be done without jeopardizing the Exchange organization?
Thanks,
Angela
Thanks,
Angela
what type of disaster recovery are you hoping to achieve?
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They have a seperate server which is stored offsite. We were hoping to be able to restore their current backup of 2 servers which is in their Exchange server to their offsite server using Veritas Backup Exec. We've accomplished this with other clients but when planning this installation we did not take into consideration restoring Exchange to a different server name. This configuration is needed for SOX compliance.
Thanks,
Angela
Thanks,
Angela
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Yes to all. We've done this before with other clients but their Exchange servers were all domain controllers due to the size of the organization. It was bad planning on our part as we were rushed for the quote. Thanks for all of your help, I truly appreciate it.
Angela
Angela
it's not recommended to run exchange on a dc.
once exchange is installed, it is NOT supported to promote it to a dc.
read more here:
http://blogs.brnets.com/michael/archive/2005/01/24/319.aspx
kris.