Transferring FSMO roles from 2003 DC to 2012 R2 DC - and how exchange will react.

Hi Folks,
I want to transfer the FSMO roles from our current 'PDC' which is server 2003 to a new Server 2012 R2 DC. Im fine with the steps i have to perform to accomplish this but as always, the wildcard is how my exchange 2007 server will react to such a change. 
Does anyone have any insight as to whether exchange will just pick up the new 'PDC' without any issues? i am going to leave the domain functional level at 2003 until i am able to migrate to exchange 2013.
thanks.
Colin Stewart

your active directory is a database, if exchange 2007 is working with the current functional level it will work after the roles are moved, the active directory database does not change when you move it to a newer domain controller, it doesn't really change
when you raise the functional level, it changed when you run adprep for a application like exchange 2007, so if it runs now moving roles to new DC will not change that  ,raising your functional level will give you more features in AD like recycle
bin which is nice.

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