Hey everyone,
We are running a Windows Server 2000 domain controller/ file server where I am and we have recently gotten our hands on Windows Server 2008. I was originally thinking that a migration of the DC from 2k to 2k8 would be just fine, however we are going from a Lotus Domino based mail system to an Exchange 2007 mail system.
I was pretty sure I read somewhere that creating new users through Exchange 2007 opened up some options that creating them in AD or migrating them didn't include.
So a few questions: 1. In your opinion(s) should I migrate? Or put in the extra work to just create a new DC from scratch? Or should I migrate everything and then go through and try to manually change things? (Note: We're not currently using GP (Note: I'm new to this job and I inherited this server, things are changing, don't berate me for things I didn't originally setup! I know things are more secure, or easier, or whatever with certain things...))
Thanks!
We are running a Windows Server 2000 domain controller/ file server where I am and we have recently gotten our hands on Windows Server 2008. I was originally thinking that a migration of the DC from 2k to 2k8 would be just fine, however we are going from a Lotus Domino based mail system to an Exchange 2007 mail system.
I was pretty sure I read somewhere that creating new users through Exchange 2007 opened up some options that creating them in AD or migrating them didn't include.
So a few questions: 1. In your opinion(s) should I migrate? Or put in the extra work to just create a new DC from scratch? Or should I migrate everything and then go through and try to manually change things? (Note: We're not currently using GP (Note: I'm new to this job and I inherited this server, things are changing, don't berate me for things I didn't originally setup! I know things are more secure, or easier, or whatever with certain things...))
Thanks!