replace w2k dc (+exchange) with 2008 server
- From: Andreas <A_Rie@xxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:27:50 +0200
Hi!
I could use some advice on the necessary steps to replace an existing windows 2000 / exchange 2000 installation with a windows 2008 server.
Maybe you have some hints/suggestions/warnings concerning our "roadmap".
Currently we have one windows 2000 server as domain controller for our domain. This server is acting as DNS- and DHCP-Server. Some group policies for the domain are defined and login scripts are distributed by the DC. Additionally Exchange 2000 is installed on this machine
(In the near future we plan to replace exhange with a groupware solution but for the moment exchange is still needed.).
As i said, we plan to replace the domain controller with a windows 2008 server (a virtualized server running on vmware server). The 2008 server already joined our domain as a member server.
So far we did the following tests and preparations:
* DCDiag -> ok
* NetDiag -> ok
* DNS is ADSintegrated
The following steps were succesfully tested on a virtualized copy of the current DC:
* adprep /forestprep
* adprep /domainprep
* adprep /gpprep
So i think we are ready to dcpromo the 2008 server. (Are we? Anything else to consider until this point?)
As i haven't worked with two domain controllers before, i am a bit unsure about the following steps, at least about possible replication-pitfalls.
* DNS should be automatically replicated
* What about DHCP, GPOs and Login Scripts, are they all replicated too? Anything to consider / do manually?
* if the replication works, i move all FSMO-Roles to the new DC, right?
As we'd like to switch to 2008 domain mode after the move, we plan to demote the 2000 server as soon as possible (= after the replication is succesfull). We still need the 2000 server as exchange 2000 depends on it.
Are there any problems demoting the 2000 server Exchange runs on?
As soon as the groupware-replacement for exchange is running we'd like to uninstall exchange.
Is this as simple as it sounds or are is there anything to consider - things like e.g. AD dependencies.
Do these steps make sense? Anything else to consider?
Thanks!
Andreas
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