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I finally finished migrating everything from one server to another.  I had to recreate everything: Active Directory, DNS, IIS, Exchange, User data, etc.  And I had to do it without the specialists knowing about it (not a secret, just seamless).

This was not a copy, this was a total reconstruction on a different server, I then copied the pieces from the old server to the new one (like the "shared" drives and the "users'" drives).  I came in at 6AM yesterday and got half the computers on the new domain (I had to stop working on that at 8:30 when everyone arrived).  Then Wayne and I came in today at 6 and copied Exchange over.  It went pretty seamless, except we have an employee that needs to access Exchange from outside the firewall, I had a solution on the old server, but it involves registry editing and I didn't document... shock!  we don't have time to document anything here :(

All of this because Exchange would not except a new domain.  We bought a company and needed to accept email for it.  It is a very straightforward process to add a new domain, just add a Recipient Policy and make sure you have AD set up.  Well, I added the recipient policy and Exchange pretended like it didn't know what I was doing... so my solution was to just make our backup server a full fledge DC and migrate everything.