RE: NT4 -> 2003
From: William Wang[MSFT] (v-rxwang_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/26/04
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:34:29 GMT
Hi David,
Thanks for your posting. In W2K or later version, Domain name can be a
Netbois name or a DNS name and DNS name is preferred. In NT, we can only
use Netbios name as Domain name. When you upgrade NT DC to W2K3, you cannot
change the Netbios name, but you will be prompted to provide a DNS name,
which has nothing to do with the Netbios name.
If anything is unclear please let me know.
Sincerely,
William Wang
Microsoft Online Support Engineer
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>Subject: NT4 -> 2003
>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:07:44 -0600
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>I've searched and read many of the posts here regarding the topic of
>upgrading Nt4 to 2003.
>
>My experience with the windows server family begins with w2k, and I just
>have limited admin experience using NT4. I know when you install w2k or
>2003 that it asks you for a FQDN such as "mycompany.com". The task I have
>at hand is to add a new Windows Server 2003 machine to an exisiting NT4
>domain named "MyCompany" rather than "MyCompany.com".
>
>If I do the following instructions:
>
>1. Build a third machine as an NT BDC and take it off the network as a
>backup plan.
>2. Install Windows NT 4.0 BDC on the new server and apply the latest
>Service Pack.
>3. In Server Manager, promote the BDC to PDC. (The current PDC will be
>demoted automatically.)
>4. In-place upgrade the new server to Windows Server 2003.
>
>what happens in regards to the domain name when I upgrade the PDC to 2003?
>Can I just use "MyCompany"? What are the drawbacks to doing this? If I
>upgrade and change the PDC domain name to "MyCompany.com" what happens with
>the BDC named just "MyCompany"?
>
>thank you for your time and help!
> David
>dmgNOSPAM@NOSPAM!_tempco.com
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