Re: Another question of win2000 DC to win2003

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Meinolf Weber
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Thanks Meinolf and Morgan for your replies.
Let me explain better what I want to do:
I have to replace the old DC win2000 that runs in machine A, for a new
machine B with win2003 Standard Edition R2. The problem is that I can
not stop the normal function of my LAN, my company need it online
ALWAYS.
Meinolf you wrote:
"No, you can not run it for testing, if you run it you can not undo
the schema
update." Can this disturb the normal work of my old DC win2000 in case
of errors?

Any body here can only say, NORMALLY, No. Users are not effected and the DC will not crash, just popping up an error and stopping the upgrade, nothing more.

I have upgraded my schema's more then one time until now during working hours, without any problems and also the most part of changing the complete servers/hardware/roles and functions. There are really less upgrading/installation steps that need a total shutdown of the systems. If you plan with redundancy for domain services like AD/DNS/DHCP/GC maybe DFS and for high availibility clustering services, you can do anything without downtime.

Ofcourse this needs a bigger budget, but service is not for free. :-)

Can I take a couple of day to correct the errors?

Again, normally not.

will the
users / environment note something?

And again, normally not.

Morgan are the same step 5 and step 13, because I can not understand
the difference?

Thanks again !



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