If you're going to sync of a BDC, take it off line and then upgrade, your basically doing an upgrade of your existing domain. You won't be able to change your NetBIOS name to something different so you will end up with two domains of the same NetBIOS name and SID. Not a good plan.
If you want to do an upgrade, sync a BDC, take it off line, then upgrade your production domain. if you upgrade fails, take all your DC offline, promote the offline BDC to PDC and your back to where you were. You have no migration issues and most clients will not notice a thing except for the outage. Reading your messages, I get the sense that you have not done your homework as far as the upgrade is concerned. Upgrading from NT 4.0 to AD is something that you should plan out well and TEST before you do anything to your production domain. There are a lot of issues in the design that you have to account for. Have you tested your plan yet? Diane -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Help. should we do this?? << File: BDY.RTF >> << File: BDY.RTF >> List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
