Re: Moving NT4 based PDC and BDC to Win2k

From: Dale (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:18:34 -0800

Thx for quick response David. I agree with your upgrade
suggestion. So that said, my plan is to:
- introduce a newer hardware NT4 machine, make it a BDC
- remove the existing BDC I have which is on very shaking
ground hardware wise and OS wise. Its hanging by a thread.
- promote the new hardware BDC to the PDC (via dcpromo I
believe - the existing PDC gets demoted to BDC?) , upgrade
it to Win2k, it would now be a DC for the domain
functioning as a PDC to the remaining NT4 BDC server
- create several DC's on other existing Win2k servers so
that there is more than one copy
- remove the last existing NT4 BDC, now with DC's in the
Win2k environment its services would no longer be
necessary (nothing runs on the existing NT4 servers except
the PDC and BDC service)
- I now am NT4 free and the domain structure has been
migrated to Win2k

Do you concur?

>-----Original Message-----
>The "easiest" way to move to AD is to just upgrade your
pdc. In your case
>with the new hw, you'd install one of those boxes as an
nt4 bdc, promote it
>to pdc, and then upgrade to 2k. You can also create
a "new" win2k domain,
>set up trust/s between that 2k domain and your nt domain,
and then use
>ADMTv2 to migrate to the 2k domain. The upgrade route is
the
>quickest/easiest though I believe. However I'd encourage
you to read up on
>the info from the following links if you haven't already,
as 2k is a bit
>different from nt.
>
>http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?
st=b&View=en-us&na=82&qu=admt
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
url=/technet/prodtechnol/ad/windows2000/plan/migntw2k.asp
>
>note; there is a ton of info on the web site that covers
just about anything
>you'd need.
>
>--
>David Brandt
>Microsoft Corporation
>
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>"Dale" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:ac2501c3ec05$cc3569b0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> We are totally Win2k with the exception of our PDC and
BDC
>> servers which are NT4 and have remained in place only
for
>> this function. We are planning on retiring these
servers
>> (2) and not upgrading the hardware, but instead move the
>> functions either to a new dedicated AD box or to another
>> existing Win2k server. Not sure if a dedicated AD box
is
>> needed or recommended.
>>
>> What is the easiest way to move to AD with a Win2k
server
>> handing the DC functions, and retire these old NT4
servers?
>>
>> In our environment users do not log directly into Win2k
>> servers but rather authenticate to eDirectory. Win2k
>> servers are used for applications rather than
>> file/print/authentication which is handled by NetWare.
>>
>> Thx
>> Dale
>
>
>.
>

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