Re: Need upgrade help
From: sukhan (sukhan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/02/05
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:35:05 -0800
Hi Cary
Thanks a lot for your reply. It's a great help that you extended. We are in
planning phase now. Your plan makes a good sense to me. I am working on
figuring out the best way to do all this upgrade. Either active directory
first or excahnge first.
I am waiting for the response from the exchange group that you posted to see
what they say.
Can I have your email address so that I can communicate you directly just in
case if get into problems.
Thanks again for your help.
"Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]" wrote:
> This question would be much better suited in the Active Directory news group
> as well as the Exchange Admin news group.
>
> Post it there and I am sure that you will get lots of answers.
>
> I would suggest that this is not a simple undertaking and should be done by
> someone with the necessary experience. If you are asking these questions
> you are *probably* not that person.....well, not at the moment. Please
> understand that I am not trying to be harsh or rude. This is a significant
> undertaking. I would hate for you to find yourself in a very bad
> situation.....
>
> Here is one way for you to do this:
>
> First you would have to run adprep /forestprep ( located on the WIN2003
> Server CD ) on the Domain Controller that holds the fsmo role of Schema
> Admin using a user account object that is a member of the Schema Admins.
> Let that replicate throughout the forest.....this may take some time. I am
> assuming that you have properly set up Sites and Services via the Active
> Directory Sites and Services MMC.
>
> Then you would want to run adprep /forestprep on the Domain Controller that
> holds the fsmo role of PDC Emulator in each domain using a user account
> object that is a member of the Domain Admins. It sounds like you have only
> one domain and are making good use of Sites and Services ( I hope that I am
> assuming correctly and if I am then that is a very good thing! ). Let this
> replicate to all Domain Controllers throughout each domain.
>
> You might then want to run the fix for the 'Mangled Attributes' that can
> occur if you are running a WIN2000 AD environment with Exchange 2000 and use
> adprep to prepare the domain for the introduction of a WIN2003 Domain
> Controller. Please see the following MSKB Article:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314649
>
>
> Let this replicate throughout the forest. Again, this could take a good
> while to do.
>
> You could then either introduce a WIN2003 Domain Controller or upgrade the
> DC that holds the fsmo role of Schema Master ( er, or would the PDC Emulator
> be the wiser choice? ).
>
> I would ask about Exchange in the Exchange Admin news group.
>
> I know that you asked about an upgrade. I have not done this so I am simply
> speculating that what I suggested above would be a proper approach ( er,
> only regarding the 'upgrade the DC that holds the fsmo role of Schema
> Master' part ). Please verify this with the Microsoft documentation and
> with those who have actually done this!
>
> I have cc:ed the two news groups that I suggested at the top of this post so
> that you do not have to duplicate anything.....
>
> --
> Cary W. Shultz
> Roanoke, VA 24014
> Microsoft Active Directory MVP
>
> http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
> http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com
>
>
>
>
> "sukhan" <sukhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6B6FA5DC-8855-4D61-B8C1-86D9F425CBD7@microsoft.com...
> > Well here are some questions for the Microsoft gurus:
> >
> >
> > 1) We are having 5 domain controllers. Two in suburb one in
> > Downtown,
> > One in Singapore and one in Barcelona.. All running windows 2000 server.
> >
> > 2) We are running exchange 2000 in a cluster here running under two
> > nodes.
> >
> > We have to upgrade the system here with 2003. Should we do the exchange
> > first or the Active directory and what would be the order. How can we
> > implement the whole upgrade? Any help would we greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
>
>
>
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