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by drmweaver

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Ok, here's a good question. I have been hired for this company. What I found was that their Primary Server is NT 4.0 and they have about 6 other servers with Win2000. There is no active directory yet, and there is an exchange server 5.5 on a win2000.

All these servers have actual public ip address, but we are protected by a firewall.

My question is, I want to upgrade to a new server for their primary. Place active directory on it, and move exchange over to that server.

Would you recommend the move of exchange to the primary (we only have about 60 users).

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by rwhite

If you can leave your DC running on it's own. That way other services can't cause a failure. Also exchange takes up alot of resources so if you can it is good to run it alone. If you need more help my name is Roger and my number is 917 326-0386. I am a MCT (Microsoft certified trainer) and a field engineer for them.

by drmweaver

Here is what I was going to purchase for the Primary/exhange server (in house build)

AMD Opteron 1.6gh 1mb L2 cache Dual processor
4x512 mb ddr pc2100
MSI 9131 Opteron server board
Raid Card
4 western digital 36.7 gb 10,000 cache

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