[Samba] NT4 PDC w/Exchange 5.5 migration

[Chris Smith]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Chris Weiss <cweiss at gmail.com> wrote:
> to clarify, this sounds kind of like you are running exchange on the PDC?

Indeed.

> you can't demote an NT4 PDC to a stand alone or member server, it
> requires a re-install.

Officially, yes. In reality, no. Changing ProductType (under
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ProductOptions) from LanmanNT to
ServerNT accomplishes this.

> Also, has upgrading exchange or migrating to something else been
> considered, like zimbra or Kerio (which is what i use now) that's
> still Outlook friendly but more flexible?

There's a custom Exchange/Outlook app that eventually needs to be replaced.

The procedure is only a temporary fix to allow new Win7 workstations
to join the domain, albeit they wont be able to use the latest version
of Outlook.

Chris