Re: DC question
From: Marc Reynolds [MSFT] (marcrey_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/05/04
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:01:51 -0600
I am not sure it is the best idea to try to upgrade you domain will your PDC
is failing. Do you have a BDC? perhaps you should promote your BDC to PDC
and remove the failing DC before starting a migration to a 2000 domain.
-- Thanks, Marc Reynolds Microsoft Technical Support This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Spam Spade" <spamspam@goaway.com> wrote in message news:1024t4beil5fe2b@corp.supernews.com... > Our domain controller is an NT 4.0 machine and it is failing. We can no > longer create new accounts and the license manager states it cannot find the > domain. The current users can use the network fine and do not even notice. I > decided to go ahead and install active directory (windows 2000). If the > current NT 4.0 domain is called dcserver1 can I create an active directory > DC with the same name? Also, what can I do to make the transition as > seemless as possible? I setup a test AD and everything worked like a champ > (on a private test network). But I would like to avoid having the users > loose there current user profile. What can I do so when the users login to > the new domain so their profile will will follow? Can I still setup a > roaming profile if the current DC is failing? > > Thanks > >
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