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Moving Exchange 2003 Server to new domain

Author
5 Jun 2006 12:50 PM
Tim
I have an Exchange 2003 SP1 server running on Windows Server 2003 SP1 in a
Windows 2003 Domain.  I need to move this server's membership from this
domain to another domain in the same 2003 Forest.  Is there an easy way to
do this or will it break Exchange?  Do I need to uninstall Exchange and
reinstall on the server after moving the membership?

Thanks for your help,

Regards,
-Tim Nichols

Author
5 Jun 2006 1:40 PM
Mark Arnold [MVP]
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:50:50 -0400, "Tim"
<Tim.Nichols@nospam.toyoda-na.com> wrote:

>I have an Exchange 2003 SP1 server running on Windows Server 2003 SP1 in a
>Windows 2003 Domain.  I need to move this server's membership from this
>domain to another domain in the same 2003 Forest.  Is there an easy way to
>do this or will it break Exchange?  Do I need to uninstall Exchange and
>reinstall on the server after moving the membership?
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>Regards,
>-Tim Nichols
>

You'll break it.
Best is to get a temporary server, do a mailbox move / pf replicate
etc. and then uninstall the Exchange server, redomain it and reinstall
Exchange.
Author
5 Jun 2006 1:50 PM
Tim
Ok, that's what I thought.  Thanks for the quick reply.  I think ultimately
we will end up moving the data to a centralized Mail server running Exchange
2003 Enterprise, so I don't think this will be an issue.  I just needed to
know if it was possible to do without doing the whole move mailbox,
uninstall and reinstall Exchange thing.

Thanks again,

-Tim Nichols

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"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <m***@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:l1d882122fgq24err6g8hi991jrip2rnfe@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:50:50 -0400, "Tim"
> <Tim.Nichols@nospam.toyoda-na.com> wrote:
>
>>I have an Exchange 2003 SP1 server running on Windows Server 2003 SP1 in a
>>Windows 2003 Domain.  I need to move this server's membership from this
>>domain to another domain in the same 2003 Forest.  Is there an easy way to
>>do this or will it break Exchange?  Do I need to uninstall Exchange and
>>reinstall on the server after moving the membership?
>>
>>Thanks for your help,
>>
>>Regards,
>>-Tim Nichols
>>
>
> You'll break it.
> Best is to get a temporary server, do a mailbox move / pf replicate
> etc. and then uninstall the Exchange server, redomain it and reinstall
> Exchange.
Author
5 Jun 2006 2:09 PM
Mark Arnold [MVP]
Centralised. Good scheme.

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