Re: Migrating a NT4 Domain into an Active Directory Domain

you cannot add an NT4 PDC to an existing AD DOMAIN as a DC. You could
however add it to an existing AD FOREST AS A CHILD DOMAIN or another AD TREE
ROOT DOMAIN. But for that to happen you need to upgrade the PDC to W2K3.

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Cheers,
(HOPEFULLY THIS INFORMATION HELPS YOU!)
# Jorge de Almeida Pinto #
MVP Windows Server - Directory Services
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"Bill Freeze" <BillFreeze@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:AC5EFD13-0D34-4A89-864F-37CD2878C7ED@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have two locations, A and B. Location A is running Windows 2003 with
> Active Directory and uses a Domain named us.company.com. Location B is
> running Windows NT 4.0 and uses its own Domain named xyz. I have a new
> Windows 2003 file server to install at location B. I have already created
> two sites in the Domain us.company.com with subnets of 172.16.30.0 for
> Location A and 172.16.20.0 for location B. I want to install the new 2003
> server at location B and make it a DC running DNS. Can I install this
> server
> at location B before upgrading the current NT PDC to Windows 2003? I need
> to
> verify but I'm not sure if the current PDC has enough hard drive space to
> allow it to be upgraded to 2003 and unfortunately I do not have another
> computer to temporarily install NT 4 on it so I can upgrade it to server
> 2003.


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