SBS2003 | Windows 2008 - Exchange 2007

Good morning!

We have a new client that ultimately has an SBS2003 environment with an
additional Domain Controller (WIN2008) and an additional Exchange Server
(2007). I have not been apart of this at all (except for looking at it now)
and have just gained remote access so I have very few details.

I remotely accessed the WIN2008 | Exchange 2007 box (*hate* putting Exchange
on a DC) and noticed that the SBS2003 box is not on the network. All sorts
of failures with all of the utilities that I run. Come to find out that we
took that SBS2003 box to our corporate office.

Now, it is still the SBS2003 box. It still holds all five FSMO Roles. It
is still running MS Exchange (although it appears that all of the mailboxes
have been moved over to the EXCH2007 box). One of my colleagues 'has some
ideas'.....not saying that in a negative way (really not).

Is it possible to:

1) remove Exchange 2003 from the SBS2003 box (I know all about having to use
the Administrator account...have done this several times) over a VPN
connection (just thinking what we must have been thinking when we removed
the SBS2003 server from the client's office)? As long as we have CD2,
right?
2) remove SBS2003 from that SBS2003 box over a VPN connection? As long as we
have CD1, right?
3) backup the SharePoint installation (assuming WSS 2.0....not WSS 3.) and
then ultimately use that backup to restore to WSS 3.0 that will be installed
on the WIN2008 | EXCH2007 box (I can only assume that this is going to be
the thought process that my colleagues have)?

Any and all comments welcome.

Thanks,

Cary

Sorry folks....wife's computer is one day behind....that has been resolved.

"Cary Shultz" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Good morning!
>
> We have a new client that ultimately has an SBS2003 environment with an
> additional Domain Controller (WIN2008) and an additional Exchange Server
> (2007). I have not been apart of this at all (except for looking at it
> now) and have just gained remote access so I have very few details.
>
> I remotely accessed the WIN2008 | Exchange 2007 box (*hate* putting
> Exchange on a DC) and noticed that the SBS2003 box is not on the network.
> All sorts of failures with all of the utilities that I run. Come to find
> out that we took that SBS2003 box to our corporate office.
>
> Now, it is still the SBS2003 box. It still holds all five FSMO Roles. It
> is still running MS Exchange (although it appears that all of the
> mailboxes have been moved over to the EXCH2007 box). One of my colleagues
> 'has some ideas'.....not saying that in a negative way (really not).
>
> Is it possible to:
>
> 1) remove Exchange 2003 from the SBS2003 box (I know all about having to
> use the Administrator account...have done this several times) over a VPN
> connection (just thinking what we must have been thinking when we removed
> the SBS2003 server from the client's office)? As long as we have CD2,
> right?
> 2) remove SBS2003 from that SBS2003 box over a VPN connection? As long as
> we have CD1, right?
> 3) backup the SharePoint installation (assuming WSS 2.0....not WSS 3.) and
> then ultimately use that backup to restore to WSS 3.0 that will be
> installed on the WIN2008 | EXCH2007 box (I can only assume that this is
> going to be the thought process that my colleagues have)?
>
> Any and all comments welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cary
>
>