Windows 2008 running DCPROMO

We recently migrated from SBS2003 to Windows 2012.  Currently our 2012 Server is the Domain Controller, while the 2008 server running Exchange 2010 is just a computer part of the domain.
I'd like to have redundancy for our Active Directory, so was going to run DC Promo and join it to the forest.   Is there anything else to prep besides running DCPROMO on the 2008 Server?  Will this affect permissions for any of the Exchange clients,
or will everything stay the same except for a replica of the domain being available in case of a failure? 

Hello,
Exchange on a domain controller is even NOT recommended from Microsoft. So in your case use a dedicated machine as additional DC.
And running Hyper-V on a server having other roles as DC is also NOT recommended. Nobody would even think about using for example VMWare hosts for anything else and this also applies to Hyper-V role.
Hyper-V should always run as dedicated server doing nothing else. All other required roles should be run in VMs running on the Hyper-V host.
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
MVP, MCP, MCTS
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
My Blog: http://blogs.msmvps.com/MWeber
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