Hi All,
My current enviroment consists of 1 - 2003 Enterprise server as the DC with Exchange 2003 installed on the same machine and it has shares for file storage. This server also has 2 network MFP printers that are shared.
I have another 2003 Enterprise server thats a member server and it's only purpose is to support 1 mission crital application and has some shares for file storage.
I want to install on a new machine 2008 R2 Enterprise server as the DC and the other new machine install another 2008 R2 server as a member for Exchange 2010 only. On another Machine install 2008 R2 as a member for the mission critical application.
What is the best resaonable course of action to migrate from the 2003 servers to 2008 R2 servers. I googled on this type of setup and I only found a couple things, but it did not help. Should I begin by migrating the DC first, transfer the FSMO and then join the Exchange server as a member to the new DC and migrate from exchange 2003 to 2010, then demote the 2003 server?
If anyone knows of some type of step by step instructions on this type of senerio somewhere on the net or MS website to help the best way to migrate this, it would be greatful. Or even can provide there own steps for the best practice of this type of migration.
Thanks
BTW, I thought I was in the section of the forum that was for Exchange 2010. However, the only choices I had was for Exchange 2013. My appoligies for posting this here, I could not locate one in the list of forms to post it in. If a moderator see this, Please post it in the right section if this is an inappropraite forum.