Re: will this work? BO2k domain to 2k3 standard domain - but on new hardware, so not 'upgrading' existing OS
- From: "John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" <jcoliverjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:26:44 -0400
As far as getting your AD level to 2003 this will work. Just to note, if you plan on running ADPREP to bring your Forest Level to 2003 while still having Exchange 2000 Servers present please read this KB,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/314649
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John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2007
Microsoft Certified Partner
"David" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:einMaXqsHHA.3364@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I found no group specific to Microsoft BackOffice 2000 Server, this group is as close as I found. Hopefully some of you are also familiar with it.
I currently have MS BackOffice 2000 Server accross 3 servers, 2 of which are acting as domain controllers for a windows 2000 native mode domain. Exchange 2000 is also on one of the DC's and SQL 2000 is on the other DC. ISA lives by itself on the 3rd. I now have 3 brand new servers on which I have Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard licenses for. I intend on upgrading the existing 2000 domain to a windows server 2003 domain (one forest, one site, one domain).
Below is my current plan, which I'm in the middle of researching for issues. I found reference to not being able to upgrade a SBS 2000 domain to a standard windows 2003 domain which is the first thing that may wrinkle my plan... Although I did just find out, thankfully, that SBS 2000 is not the same as BackOffice 2000 Server, I was not sure of this thinking it may have just been a name change. So maybe this issue will not apply to me, but, since I'm assuming this issue takes place when adprep.exe tries to update the schema and sees the SBS custom objects, thus failing it, that the same may happen for BackOffice since it also has a modified schema, like SBS.
my plan:
1) fresh install of windows server 2003 R2 on a new server (not trying to upgrade existing backoffice 2000 machines)
2) join new 2k3 machine to the existing backoffice 2000 domain, then promote it as an additional domain controller in the existing domain.
3) transfer all FSMO roles to the new 2k3 domain controller
4) dcpromo down (demote) the existing 2 backoffice 2000 domain controllers back to member servers.
that leaves me with only the 2k3 domain controller at which point I assumed I could raise the forest and domain functional levels to windows server 2003.
will it work? Not considering any exchange 2000 issues yet, thats next. So assuming for now that there are no exchange servers involved, does the plan for upgrading the domain look like it should work? I will be looking into exchange issues next, as I have already seen refernce to them as well, but one thing at a time...
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