Exchange 2000 in an Domain Controller

Try this white paper on Exchange and AD. It should clear things up for you:
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/deployment/2000/MetaAD.asp

hope this helps

Hi,

We have the same setup except that I have a smaller user base (around 30 users). I have installed the MS BackOffice Server 2000 in a Dell PowerEdge 4400 Server PIII-1Ghz Xeon 512 RAM. The server has everything, Active Directory, Exchange 2000, ISA Server 2000, IIS, SQL Server 2000.

If 200 users log in at the same time, each one requesting authentication from the Active Directory and most of them might check emails at the same time (around 8m as soon as they come in the office), you might encounter a performance bottleneck.

Btw, with my existing setup, I don't experience any performance loss, yet. My Users are not that heavy Exchange users.

Hello,
We are running exchange 2000 on a gateway with 1.5g ram and 996 processor on a w2k as a domain controller with active directory. We have about 75 users. Our other server is the PDC performing the DNS and Authentication, so to speak. The mail utilization is minimal. I take it you only have one server. Exchange has a lot of I/O request, so make sure your drive speeds are at least scsci 10k hopefully raid 5. You may want to consider adding another processor and max out the memory if it is capable. Probably, just going to have to try it hopefully you have the option of balancing the load with two servers schema, operations master etc on one and exchange active directory on the other.

Good luck

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