Re: Member servers, XP & WIN2K professional clients during In-place upgrade from NT4 to WIN2K3 AD

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We have scheduled for the in-place upgrade of our NT4 domain to WIN2K3.

One of the advantages of an inplace upgrade is that you are upgrading the
existing domain not creating a new domain. Your clients will *think* it's
the same domain.

Leave them online.

For fallback pull an NT 4.0 BDC off line. If necessary, promote to PDC and
the NT domain is back.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

<puliyadim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1153408019.195906.57210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

We have scheduled for the in-place upgrade of our NT4 domain to WIN2K3.

During the upgrade process can the member servers, XP & WIN2K clients
be online?
The concern what i have here is, if all are online they will be joined
to the active directory domain and if i need to fall back to NT 4
domain i would have to disjoin & join them again.

If any one can suggest the best practice it would be a great help for
us.

Thanks.

Dinesh



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