Re: 32bit to 64bit AD upgrade

Thanks for your replies and help. This is my home environment but i do host
my web sites off of this machine which I guess makes it a psuedo production
machine. I figure since I spent the money to buy 64 bit machines I might as
well make use of the hardware. I want to upgrade the server first then the
workstation second.

The workstation I'm not as concerned about because i can just install WinXp
x64 as a clean install and then reinstall all of my apps but the DC is a
different story and I want to retain all of those settings.
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John Pryor


"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" wrote:

If this is in a production setting I wouldn't. I'm not sure if you can run
server inside of a workstation, I'm not up on VS, but if you can it would
work. I just wouldn;t risk my production in this type of setting. Is there
a reason you need 64 bit?

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Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT

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"john pryor" <johnpryor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My other machine is running WinXp what if I ran a virtual server on that
machine. I could run Win2003 inside of that VM and make it the DC
temporarily
while I upgraded the physical machine, what do you think?
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John Pryor


"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" wrote:

Yeah as the others have said this is not something you can upgrade on a
current machine. You will have to bring up a second server and then down
the first and then re-install.

I have a article on decomminssion a dc to help you along.

http://www.pbbergs.com
Select articles and click on Decommission a DC

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MVP - Directory Services
MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT

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"john pryor" <johnpryor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have only 1 server, which is my domain server, and it is running 32
bit
Win
2003 server on 64 bit hardware. I'd like to upgrade the OS to 64 bit
Win
2003
but I don't know how to move the Active Directory over to the new OS
while
keeping all of my current domain settings. Any help wuld be greatly
appreciated.
--
John Pryor






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