"inenewbl" <inene***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0278C2FD-8940-4523-8876-1CDED124521F@microsoft.com...
> Hi all. I am currently conducting a migration of exchange 5.5 sitting on a
> NT4.0 domain controller to another new machine with exchange 2003 on
> windows
> 2003. I installed windows NT4.0 on the new machine as BDC of my exisiing
> domain then upgrade it to PDC. I then did a upgrade installation to
> convert
> it to windows 2003. After windows 2003 is done, i proceed to active
> directory
> installation. I chose the default option "domain in a new forest" (it
> seems
> the other 2 options could not work) and was prompt to key in a dns name.
> However i could not key in the existing domain name and must key in a new
> domain name as i would be prompted that the name already exist in network.
> However i would like to retain my domain name since its use for my mail
> purposes in exchange. Is there any suggestion? Thks in advance.