Upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003

From: Johnny Chow (jchow10_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:15:04 -0800

Hi,
I am newbie to upgrade Windows 2000 to Windows 2003. Your tips, and
experience will be appreciated. I have two Windows 2000 Domain
Controllers with mixed windows 2000/20003 servers and XP/2000 clients in
single domain. I wanted to upgrade DC to Windows 2003 before Exchange
2003 installation. Server 1 DC has PDC, RID, domain operation, schema
master roles, and DNS services. Server 2 has Global catalog,
Infracstructure roles, dns and dhcp services. Do I just insert Wind2k3
cdrom and upgrade Win2k to Win2k3 server? If I do this way, will I need
  to reconfigure my DHCP/DNS, operation roles? Is there any preparation
I have to do? Is it too risky?

Thank you in advacnce,

John chow

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