Re: 2000 AD to 2003 AD

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Perry,

I do not really see any reason at the moment to be removing any of the
WIN2000 Domain Controllers. Is there a specific need that doing this would
fulfill or are you just asking?

As Paul stated, going to WIN2003 Forest level would be the only reason. I
guess that there are some things that are available in Exchange 2003 at that
Forest level that are not available at the other Forest level. Probably
some things with WIN2003 AD as well. I just started with WIN2003, so I am
learning as I go....

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Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24012

"Perry" <Perry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6635E9FD-053D-45CA-851D-CD4866D14145@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a question concerning upgrading to Win2K3 environment. For the past
> few years we had a Win2K domain and recently we added a few new Win2K3 to
> the
> mix one of which is an exchange 2003 server on a win2K3 box. At this
> point
> my PDC is still a win2K box and I have one BDC which is win2K3 and one BDC
> that is a win2K. What I need to know is should I DCPROMO down all the
> win2K
> servers and just have win2K3 server running as domain controllers? If
> anyone
> has any thoughts of KB articles i would appreciate it. Thanks.
>
> Perry


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