Re: same domain name in migrating from Win Nt4 to Win 2K3

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From: Dusko Savatovic (savatovic.removespam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:12:32 +0200

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> - currently I dont't have DNS installed on the NT4 PDC
> and at what stage would I have to intall it for the AD to
> work well during upgrade?

If dcpromo does not detect valid DNS service, it will offer to install it.
On simple networks it is just best to let it do all the work automatically.

> - Do I just run dcpromo on the newly installed NT4 BDC to
> promote it to a PDC without doing anything to the PDC, or
> it has to be offline?

You cannot run dcpromo on NT4. Sorry, my NT4 memory is somewhat rusty, but
somewhere in Server Manager (or is it User Manager for Domains?) you should
say that you wish to promote your current BDC (your future 2k0/2k3 box) to
PDC. This process will automaticaly demote your current NT4 box to BDC role.
Having done that you disconnect old NT4 box from the network and you don't
connect it anymore. With this setup you have frozen state of your network
that existed at the time when BDC was disconnected.

On your new box, you then start upgrade install of Win2k/2k3 Server. The
upgrade process detects that you are running on PDC and will invoke dcpromo
somewhere along the route.

Good luck,
Dusko Savatovic

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