Re: Upgrading the Schema Master - [WildPacket]

WP,

Please remember that the two FSMO Roles of Schema Master and Domain Naming
Master are Forest-wide. Thus, these two FSMO roles will be only in the
'Forest Root Domain' (in other words, the first Domain in the environment).

Each domain in the Forest, however, will have the three Domain-wide FSMO
Roles of PDC Emulator, RID Master and Infrastructure Master.

So, in your case you will have those three Domain-wide FSMO Roles in each of
the Domains and you will have the two Forest-wide FSMO Roles in the Forest
Root Domain (in your case, local.com).

Now, do you want to perform an upgrade of each of the Domain Controllers in
local.com (meaning, dropping the WIN2003 CD-Media in the CD-ROM Drive and
doing an in-place upgrade)? or, do you want to add an additional Domain
Controller to this domain (meaning, that there will now be three)?

Think about this:

drop in the Windows Server 2003 CD-Media in the Domain Controller in
local.com that holds the Schema Master. Make sure that you are logged on
with an account that is a member of the Schema Admins (by default, the
Administrator account from this domain is that) and run adprep /forestprep.
This is similar to what you have to do with Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003.

Once this has finished and replicated to all Domain Controllers in the
entire Forest (so, to all Domain Controllers in both local.com and
company.com) you can then go to each Domain and drop in the Windows Server
2003 CD-Media and run adprep /domainprep. You would do this on the Domain
Controller in each of those domains that holds the FSMO Role of
Infrastructure Master.

Know that if you do have Exchange 2000 that there is a possibility of the
'Mangled Attributes' problem. Please make sure that you take care of this.

Once all of this is done then you can simply upgrade one of the Domain
Controllers in local.com to WIN2003.

Please note that in Windows Server 2003 that there are three Forest
Functional Levels (Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Interim and Windows 2003) and
that there are four Domain Functional Levels (Windows 2000 mixed, Windows
2000 Native, Windows 2003 Interim and Windows 2003). These are pretty much
like the Windows 2000 Mixed Mode and Windows 2000 Native Mode in Windows
2000 Active Directory. It is just broken down a little bit more!

Does this help?

--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24012

"Wild Packet" <mailtomohsin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We have One forest with 2 domains.
local.com and company.com

local.com has 2 DCs (both W2K), one holds the Schema Master and Domain
Namin Master roles.

Another DC in company.com holds the other 2 roles (RID and PDC) and a
third DC holds the (IM). company.com has about 19DCs.

We want to upgrade the both DCs in local.com to Windows 2003 Servers. How
do I do this ... as one of DC in local.com is schema master and Domain
Naming for the entire forest.

elplz.



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