Oscar,
Having just upgraded our NT domain to 2003, I can say that the
process for that was surprisingly easy and painless. For you, even less so
as you already have Active Directory in place and functioning. The basic
process for us was install NT, upgrade to 2003, and remove the NT
controllers. For you, you would just join the 2003 box to the domain, run
dcpromo to install Active Directory, and then run dcpromo on the 2000 box to
demote it to a member server. Demoting the 2000 box will automagically
transfer all the "Master" rolls like PDC emulator and the like to the new
2003 box. Should be painless.
But I would probably run both as DCs just to have redundancy for at
least authentication, and just transfer the services you want to the new
machine.
Jon
Jon Galbreath
MCSA/MCSE/Security+
Network/System Administrator
International Studies and Programs
Ph: 517-355-2350
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-----Original Message-----
From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Oscar Castaneda
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:33 AM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] upgrading domain controller
List,
I am running a windows domain with a domain controller on Windows 2000.
I have a new server with Windows 2003 and I want to make it the domain
controller.
The 2003 server is brand new, I haven't even turn it on.
I had been reading what I found available in the internet about a 2003
taking over a domain from a 2000 but I would like to listen stories or
experiences of people who went through this transition before. I am sure
that many of you already did it.
According with what I had seen, it seems to be an straight forward
procedure, but you never know and I would not like to make my network go
down.
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Oscar Castaneda
Michigan State University
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