RE: w2k domain prep done 4 w2k3

Jason,

Thanks for the response, I was originally going to do a inplace upgrade, but
found this sites and wanting to take some of the wisdom and experiance.

Hardware is 5 years old, company just bought new hardware and we were
thinking of building a new 2000 then dcpromo, then move all the roles to it
and then upgrade to 2003?

But seeing the posts of taking a 2003 member server and doing a dcpromo on
it to begin the upgrade, then move the FSMO roles. I would not be building a
2000 machine but instead could build the 3 new dc's as windows 2003 members
and then dcpromo and move each role I wish to each of the new machine's.
Currently we have 3 2000 dc's in the root, which we would move from each of
the old to the new machine. After the root we will begin with branches that
are aditional dc's and will also replace them since a HP pentium 200 just
won't make it( no laughing please) and we can then do the 2 child as we like
as well.to finish with raising the funtion level.

Thanks again, got to go do some reading from all those links :-)

Mike :-)

"Jason Tan (MSFT)" wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks for posting!
>
> Correct. You may follow the procedure. That is just the recommended steps
> to replace the old hardware. I would like to provide you with the following
> information for your reference:
>
> How To View and Transfer FSMO Roles in Windows Server 2003
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=324801
>
> Transfer FSMO to from 2k3 to win2k3.
> Using Ntdsutil.exe to seize or transfer FSMO roles to ad domain controller
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255504
>
> 816105 HOW TO: Create or Move a Global Catalog in Windows Server 2003
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=816105
>
> 307304 - HOW TO: Remove Active Directory with the Dcpromo Tool in Windows
> 2000
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307304
>
> Verify successful replication to a domain controller: Active Directory
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Opera
> tions/00e7f86b-ccd3-4cb8-9a01-bf747241b500.mspx
>
> More information for your reference:
> Upgrade to Windows 2003 with hardware that does not support Windows NT 4.0.
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/wilwol/PersonalSpace.aspx
>
> Our newsgroup is focus on Windows Server migration. Therefore, regarding
> exchange question, please open a new post in
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> for issues involving Exchange, So that the dedicated MS engineer can help
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> | I was thinking how nice if I could replace the older machines if I take a
> | member 2003 enterprise server and run dcpromo on it as my first 2003 dc.
> Move
> | the roles to the new dc and then I can dcpromo the old and take offline.
> |
> | The question is can I do this, I've keep seeing posts that say this and
> is
> | there any documents on this, what post tweaks should I be aware of as well
> |
> | Currently we have single domain, with 2 child, running exchange 2k and
> did
> | the ldap fix and all forest and domain prep completed without errors.
> |
> | any thoughts are welcomed,
> |
> | Thanks Mike
> |
>
>
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