A client has had a disk failure on a machine that runs SBS 2003 (not R2) and we're not sure at this time if the array recovery will be successful. Fortunately, they're responsible for this!
They have a 2nd server that is a WS2003 R2 DC and provides most of their services: File & Print, etc. SBS was providing the FSMO roles and Exchange only. They don't necessarily care if everything goes back the way it was. Specifically, they plan to migrate email to hosted Exchange, so that leaves the SBS itself.
- I know SBS punishes us if it's not the FSMO roleholder, or otherwise discovers it's not the master of its domain (so to speak). But do additional, non-SBS DCs in an SBS domain do anything unkind if they can't find their SBS after some period of time?
- If we seize FSMO roles on the 2nd DC, and add DHCP, and we export Outlook OST contents to PSTs to ship to the Exchange host, are we then effectively done with SBS and just operate as a WS2003 R2 domain, albeit one with a 75-user limit that can't participate in trusts?