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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 [log in to unmask] -----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 To: [log in to unmask] 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. -- Oscar Castaneda Michigan State University