Re: Adding a 2003 DC to an existing 2000 AD

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Normally it should be but I don't think that is very troubling. Just add
via the installs I gave to you from an earlier post.

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Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT

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"Ted W" <TedW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the info. I ran the diagnostics you suggested and I have
numerous
errors on both systems. However, I have found something extremely
troubling.
I went to run the DNS manager on our secondary DC and noted that DNS
manager
was not available. I also noted the Active Directory Manager for Users
and
Computers was not available. Is this normal?

"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" wrote:

I agree, resolve the dns issues.

Run diagnostics against your Active Directory domain.

If you don't have the support tools installed, install them from your
server
install disk.
d:\support\tools\setup.exe

Run dcdiag, netdiag and repadmin in verbose mode.
-> DCDIAG /V /C /D /E /s:yourdcname > c:\dcdiag.log
-> netdiag.exe /v > c:\netdiag.log (On each dc)
-> repadmin.exe /showrepl dc* /verbose /all /intersite > c:\repl.txt

**Note: Using the /E switch in dcdiag will run diagnostics against ALL
dc's
in the forest. If you have significant numbers of DC's this test could
generate significant detail and take a long time. You also want to take
into account slow links to dc's will also add to the testing time.

When complete search for fail, error and warning messages.


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Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT

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"Danny Sanders" <DSanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not to concerned about the DNS warnings.
However, I'm a little reluctant in running the the ADPREP while there
are
errors concerning group policy. What do you think?

Solve those DNS warnings. AD is TOTALLY tied to DNS. Solve those DNS
errors and the group policy errors may go away.

hth
DDS


"Ted W" <TedW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the info. I also noted on our servers event viewer that we
have
some error conditions pertaining to group policy in the Application
Log
and
warnings in the DNS Server Log. I'm not to concerned about the DNS
warnings.
However, I'm a little reluctant in running the the ADPREP while there
are
errors concerning group policy. What do you think?


"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" wrote:

Microsoft recommends (It should be requires but it isn't) that all
dc's
are
at sp4. If not then you need to make sure all the Windows 2000
domain
controllers must have an Ntdsa.dll file whose date stamp and version
is
later than June 4th, 2001 and 5.0.2195.3673. If you can apply sp4 I
would
do it.

For more info see the link below, specifically step 2:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325379

--
Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT

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"Ted W" <TedW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We currently have a domain with 2 W2K DCs, one primary and a
member.
The
primary has been upgraded to SP4. I noted one article in the
Knowledgebase
concerning hotfixes and service packs but they stop at SP3. With
my
current
configuration should I expect any problems running adprep and what
things
should I be looking out for?

Thanks,

Ted











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