Migration of a WIN2000 "native mode" domain to WINSERVER 2003 doma

From: Moreno (Moreno_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:15:03 -0800

Hi to all.

This is my scenario.
In our company we have a "SINGLE DOMAIN - MULTIPLE SITES" Windows 2000
"native mode" domain, running Active Directory.

There are, currently, 4 sites with 6 DC's.
The situation is as follows.

FIRST SITE
=======
In the first site (the company headquarters), there are TWO DC's and one of
these is the OPERATION MASTER for the forest, the MAIN DNS, etc.
The second DC' is a second CG server but it is only a simple file server

SECOND SITE (located at 20 km from the first site)
=========
In the second site, there are other TWO DC's, one of these runs the GC, DNS
for the site, WINS, DHCP, etc.

THIRD SITE (located 150 km from the first site)
=======
Only a single GC DOMAIN CONTROLLER to serve the internal LAN

FOURTH SITE (located 200 km from the first site)
=========
Only a single GC DOMAIN CONTROLLER to serve the internal LAN

All the sites are connected via HDSL links (2 Mbits) and replicated to the
first site regularly every THREE HOURS with the operation's master DC.
All works well, no problems.

Now, we have decided to migrate all the entire domain to the WIN 2003
platform, but, obviously, we have many hundreds of users and computers and we
would like to migrate to the new environment without problems.

So, the great question is: what are the steps to do to make a successful
migration?

Can someone help me?

Thanks in advance to all!!

Bye Bye.

Moreno
(Italy)

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