Re: DCPROMO Question
From: Chriss3 [MVP] (noSpamHere_at_chrisse.se)
Date: 08/19/04
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:17:16 +0200
You can not rise the forest level if you have NT4 BDCs within the forest in
any domain in the forest. How ever you can rise a particular domain to
Windows2000 Native or Windows Server 2003 Native if the particular domain
contains only 2k DCs or 2k3 DCs
-- Regards Christoffer Andersson Microsoft MVP - Directory Services No email replies please - reply in the newsgroup ------------------------------------------------ http://www.chrisse.se - Active Directory Tips "Scott Micale" <hrm_admin@news.postalalias> skrev i meddelandet news:eCaw6PfhEHA.3980@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... > I have a domain with one win2k3 DC and one win2k DC in it and I want to > raise my forest level but can't until I either upgrade my win2k DC to win2k3 > or demote it to a member server. I am thinking for the time being I may > just demote it. It is acting as the DC and a secondary DNS server for my > domain. Can I just DCPROMO it or do I have to worry about transferring > roles first? If I do need to transfer the roles how do I do that? I know > it isn't good practice to have only one DC in a domain, but hopefully soon I > can convince management to buy another license. > > My other question is I have another child domain in this same forest that > was my PDC running NT4. I loaded up a new server with NT4 made it a BDC and > then promoted it to PDC. Then upgraded it to win2k3. I still have that NT4 > machine running and is now a BDC. Can I still raise my forest level with > that being on the network? > > Thanks > > -- > Scott Micale > Director of IT > 330-877-3631 > >
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