Re: Migrating a NT4 to a Win2003



Ok. Will try upgrading. !

Thanks for your comments.

Danny Sanders wrote:

And with this, the second NT4 will work together with the Win2003?

Yes.

If yes, is there an easier way WITHOUT installing NT4 on the new PC ?

When you get right down to it there are ONLY 2 ways to move from NT 4.0 to
AD. Upgrade or migrate.
IMHO upgrading is "easier" than migrating. Migrate means setting up a new AD
domain and migrating your users to the new domain. New profiles are created
on the users. To most users a new profile is a problem.

You can just put the Win 2k3 CD into your existing PDC and upgrade it to Win
2k3. Then add the new Win 2k3 server to the AD domain as a member server
and run dcpromo to make it a DC.

If you want to remove the upgraded NT 4.0 PDC then you will have to transfer
the FSMO roles to the new Win 2k3 DC, move DNS, DHCP, and the global
catalog.

hth
DDS

"Mathieu MARCIACQ" <mathieu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If I understand well:

1°) I install NT4 on my new PC as a BDC
2°) I promote this PC sor PDC, so the second NT4 will automaticly switch
to a BDC
3°) I install on this PC Win2003

And with this, the second NT4 will work together with the Win2003?

If yes, is there an easier way WITHOUT installing NT4 on the new PC ?


Danny Sanders wrote:

You will install NT 4.0 on the Win 2k3 server as a BDC while connected to
your existing network with the NT 4.0 PDC. When you promote this new NT
4.0
BDC to PDC your existing PDC will be demoted to BDC.

The new server will be Win 2k3 acting as a PDC emulator in your Win 2k
domain. Your demoted PDC will be a BDC in that Win 2k3 domain.

hth
DDS
"Mathieu MARCIACQ" <mathieu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your answer

Do you mean that with this method, the second NT4 server can be defined
as a BDC of the Win2003 AD ?

(The problem is that I have 1 NT4 and 1 Win2003 file server to keep
together....)
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