Re: Indecision about upgrade
From: Vitalis (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/03/04
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:34:59 -0800
Does it matter that my clients login and authenticate to
eDirectory/NetWare? They only authenticate/login to a
Windows domain or a Windows server as necessary.
Applications run mainly as services or use accounts within
the application itself. A lot of the existing NT accounts
are for FrontPage authentication for authoring in an
internal company web page. I would think DHCP staying on
NetWare side is ok. For DNS, can't I just use a Zone
Transfer from my primary (NetWare) DNS to my secondary
(Win) DNS?
>-----Original Message-----
>Ok, Acitve Directory requires that all internal Windows
2000 Pro machine and up use the Internal DNS server for
name resolution and logging into the domain. You MUST use
DNS on a Windows 2000 for Active directory to function
>correctly. You could use you other DNS server but that
will have to be some sort of secondary DNS settings for
your clients or you could do Zone transfers between the
two DNS servers. In order to rename your domain you will
have to do that in NT before ungrading to Windows 2000. If
you upgrade to Win2k3 you can do this but there are
limitations and things to consider for that. I would also
suggest using DHCP from Windows instead of Novell in
>order to populate Win2k DNS with all your client
settings. This(DNS)actually is what will enable you to
make WINS mostly go away. You may not be able to
completely remove WINS and some applications still rely on
Netbios names. DNS works so much better than WINS and
should take care of most of the typical WINS issues. You
could also create a whole new domain and make the domain
name the way you want it and then use ADMT to migrate
users etc to this new domain. This is not an easy
undetaking and really there is too much for a newsgroup to
help you for the most part. This is really something
>that you should discuss with a local expereinced
consultant in your neck of the woods. Also with some
things that you are saying really show the lack of
>experience here, no offense meant, and doing something
wrong during this process can really shoot your self in
the foot and could blow up your whole migration. Here is
some general info but you need to do some reading and
>research and I really think a local consultant could at
least help you with getting a working plan that would
include some sort of emergency backout procedure. Even if
you do the actual work a consultant can help build the
>plan which is most important!
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/di
rectory/activedirectory/default.mspx
>
>--
>Scott Harding
>MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
>Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server
>
>"Vitalis" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:642e01c40142$3252c110$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> I am paralyzing myself with indecision about the best
>> upgrade path. Any comments and advice on my options and
>> best path would be most welcome. I am struggling which
>> way to upgrade and how to integrate with existing DNS.
>>
>> Environment
>> - 1 NT 4 PDC and 1 NT 4 BDC (SP6a on both), neither
>> provide anthing other than the PDC/BDC functions
>> - 20+ Win2k member servers of NT domain (SP4 on all)
>> - Domain name = COMPANY_NT
>> - DHCP provided by NetWare 6 server to workstations
>> - All servers use manually assigned IP's, do not use
DHCP
>> - DNS entries for servers at this time are mostly manual
>> - DNS provided by NetWare 6 server and Win2k server
>> - Workstations are Win2k
>> - Servers are all centralized
>> - 900 user organization but < 100 need to access to Win
>> servers
>> - DNS name is company.com
>>
>> Problems
>> - want to eliminate NT 4 servers due to old hardware and
>> outdated OS
>> - want to implement AD
>> - want to get rid of WINS
>> - want to keep the company.com domain name as the top of
>> the tree, as well have any server in the domain being at
>> the root ie. server1.company.com
>> - want to eliminate the ORG_NT domain name with
underscore
>> which is not supported by DNS (this is my understanding)
>> - want to retain existing DNS structure where NetWare
DNS
>> provides DHCP and DNS info for workstations. Windows
DNS
>> will be used only for Windows servers. Some forwarding
>> would be setup to pass requests on to each other
>> - unsure if really need DNS is AD or not
>>
>> Thx
>> Vity
>
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