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Joe, I have done the upgrade twice to date,
once in a lab and then on corporate. Here are the steps that I took. 1. Create a backup of each DC. If the schema gets corrupted,
you will need to restore all the DCs simultaneously. 2. On your Domain Master, the DC that
holds the schema and infrastructure roles – Perform the /forestprep 3. (same as 2) perform the /domainprep 4. Upgrade this Master DC to Windows 2003. 5. Force Replication At this point it would be a good idea to
create a test account, mail enabled and make sure that the information is being
replicated. Once you are stratified, you can do the
other DCs at your leisure. Remember to have fun. J ***************************************** Active Directory / Exchange Administrator (W) 503.629.3538 (C)
503.807.4797 (F) 503.629.3674 From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pelle, Joe Hello all… Just wanted to know if anyone has had some
experience moving DC’s (security root and all) from 2000 AD to 2003
AD? I’ve read about taking the Schema Master offline and
ForestPrep’ing it then bringing it back online and DomainPrep’ing
the Infrastructure Master: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278875&Product=winsvr2003 … But I was wondering if there were any gotcha’s
or procedures I’d should be doing before tackling this
upgrade… I don’t have a testbed that I can use so I was
hoping for some insight from the master’s! Any help, suggestions, pointers, etc are always greatly
appreciated! Thanks! Joe
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