RE: NT 4 migration help to Windows 2003

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Hi,

Yes, you can upgrade the NT4 domain into a existing forest. When you
upgrade the NT4 domain, it will prompt to ask you to specify domain name.
Regarding your concern about the workstations in NT4 domain, please
understand, we say a workstation belongs to a domain because it has a
computer account in the domain. After the NT4 domain is upgraded , the
workstation also has its computer account in this domain, so , it also
belongs to the domain. For more information, please refer to following
article:

Upgrade to a Regional Domain in an Existing Forest
<http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/c0e53453-b78b-4976-a
b42-f67de45d93271033.mspx?mfr=true>

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Hello. We currently have an Active Directory forest in place. We
currently
have four domains in the forest. Three of them are child domains. The
"Domain
Functional Level" for all the domains is Windows 2003.

We have a separate domain that is still running NT 4 with about 100
clients.
I would like to know if it's still possible to upgrade this domain to
Windows
2003 as a domain controller and join the Active Directory as a child
domain.
I found some knowledge base articles that this would not work because the
"Domain Functional Level" is Windows 2003. Could someone confirm that
this is
the case. Is there a work around to some how upgrade NT 4 domain and be
part
of the Active Directory?

Assuming that I am able to upgrade the NT 4 domain and make it part of
the
Active Directory as a child domain, should I be concerned with the domain
name? For example, my NT 4 domain name is "dom1". In my Active Directory,
the
root domain is "xyz.pvt".

Currrently, all user workstations in the NT 4 domain know the domain
name
as "dom1". If I were able to upgrade the NT 4 domain and make it a child
domain in the Active Directory, will the user workstations (Windows NT,
Winddows 2000 and Windows XP) in NT 4 domain continue to use the NT
domain
name: dom1 or will they be using: dom1.xyz.pvt? I would like to preserve
user
profiles that are local on user's workstations without having to create
new
ones. The goal is also to do an in place upgrade on the NT 4 PDC so I can
preserve all the user accounts and passwords.

I know new workstations joining the domain will use dom1.xyz.pvt. But
what
about the current workstations that were there during the upgrade? Will
they
continue to use dom1 or dom1.xyz.pvt?
If the user workstations are still using the NT 4 domain name: dom1 after
upgrading the domain controllers to join the Active Directory forest,
will I
have any unforseen problems such as propogating security policies or
accessing resources with other domains in the forest?

I never went through this type of scenario and I'm afraid of the negative
impact it might have. I would appreciate any feedback and explanations.
Thanks in advance.






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