Re: Question on planning

"Ai Learning" <ai@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Herb Martin" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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Yah, maybe you're right.. It's just that the NT domain is soooo much
messyyy.. And the box, way to small to handle Win2k3.. What's the trick
you were talking about?

Again, what's the trick you were talking about?


Clean it up -- now or after you upgrade, but don't use
this phony reason to avoid upgrading. This idea has
been propagated largely by those who aren't very good
at maintaining there domains.

Again, I need that trick of yours! :D

There are several actually. Install NT4 as a BDC (yes, NT4-BDC)
on a brand new machine and promote it to PDC -- now
upgrade it to Win2003 as the first DC.

Another method, that only had to WORK TEMPORARILY,
is to move the harddrive from NT PDC to a new machine.
You might have to also rebuild the partition larger and do
a backup/restore for this to work.

Once you are upgraded to AD, you add new DCs and retire
the "hacked" first machine if desired.

The key is that the PDC must be the FIRST DC upgraded,
but that can be either the current PDC, a new BDC promoted
to PDC, or the drive moved or backup/restored to new
hardware.

Practically always one of these methods will work.

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
Accelerated MCSE
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
[phone number on web site]





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