Re: Retire or Upgrade and Retire?

Thank you for the quick reply...

I just really wanted to confirm what I had planned to do anyway, but because my jr. admin suggested that other plan, I wanted to be certain.

not sure what FFL/DFL means, but the schema and forest was updated by the guy I replaced when he brought in exch 03 to the domain. is that what you mean? Am I missing something then?????




Meinolf Weber wrote:
Hello RandyH,

Why will you spend time in upgrading and then retiring? If no roles on that machine and no important data, just run dcpromo to demote it and after that check that it is moved from DC's OU to the computers container. If this is fine let everything replicate to make sure all DC's have the info of the demoted DC, disconnect it and delete it form the domain. If this is done and you have not other older DC's then 2003 you can raise the FFL/DFL. Or didn't you thought about Forest functional level?

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I have what I believe to be the original DC for our company's domain.
I would think this server was a BDC promoted to PDC and then upgraded
to Windows 2000.

Our domain level is Mixed Mode 2003 and I need to decommission this ol
windows 2000 DC.

He doesn't hold any FSMO roles as they've been transferred across two
new 2003 DC's and is not a GC.

I was thinking of: running DC promo and de/un promote that server as a
DC and then raise our domain level to Native Mode 03.

But, my junior admin had an idea to upgrade the 2000 DC to 2003, then
set the domain to native mode, then run dcpromo and promote that old
server out.

Any ideas or suggestions to how to "best practice" that Windows 2000
Domain Controller out of the domain?

Tia,
RandyH


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