Re: Migrating NT 4 PDC to Exisitng Win 2000 AD

From: Dinesh Tashildar (tdinesh_at_pun.cognizant.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:36:43 +0530

If it is first domain contoller (Windows 2000 enviroment) then it will got
give you option for "Addtional domain controller for an exisitng domain"

Is it your first domain contoller (Windows 2000 enviroment)?

-Dinesh

"gmickelsen" <gmickelsen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBC062EC-4FBB-4A46-A90A-9E73D97E0D9D@microsoft.com...
>I recently attempted an upgrade from Win NT to Win 2000 on a DELL PowerEdge
> Server. This server was a PDC for our NT domain. What I intend doing is to
> make this join an exisiting 2000 AD domain when upgraded.
> The upgrade to Win 2000 worked fine but then on running DCPROMO, I
> expected
> the option: "Addtional domain controller for an exisitng domain" as I had
> done during testing. I could then have specified the domain I wanted this
> DC
> to join. However, I was only given the options "Create a new domain tree"
> or
> "Create a new child domain in an exisitng domain tree". These were not the
> options I expected or wanted.
> Would anyone be able to offer any advice on why I had these different
> options?
> Are there any steps to take before the upgrade from NT to 2000 (e.g. DNS
> changes...)?
>
> Many thanks

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