RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrading from 2000 AD to 2003 AD

[張博善]

I just upgraded from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 on the last weekend. It was really fun. Of course, we did the complex lab before doing this on production as well. It's really important to do it in lab before anything. We prepared lots of hard diskes to mirror/backup all of the data and system. And, we did the clean install to make sure we are able to enable all of the cool feature of Windows 2003 in the future, even thought I had heard that lots of in-place upgrade has been thought very smoothly as well.

Steve Shaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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
S

 

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Steve Shaff

Active Directory / Exchange Administrator

Corillian Corporation

(W) 503.629.3538 (C) 503.807.4797 (F) 503.629.3674

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pelle, Joe
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Upgrading from 2000 AD to 2003 AD

 

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 Pelle

Systems Analyst

Information Technology

Valassis / Targeted Print & Media Solutions

35955 Schoolcraft Rd.   Livonia, MI  48150

Tel 734.632.3753      Fax 734.632.6240

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http://www.valassis.com/

 

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