RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory 2003 question

[Douglas M. Long]

Title: Active Directory 2003 question

Why would you upgrade your DCs when you dont even have clients to take advantage of your current DCs? Might be better off spending money somewhere else (new firewall, web caching server, etc). I work in the education world also, so I know the politics you have to deal with, but it seems that if you just try different approaches to proposing something, you will eventually find the way management likes to be manipulated.

 

 

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Subject: [ActiveDir] Active Directory 2003 question

I am looking at upgrading our AD (DC's) and Exchange from 2000 to 2003.  We have about 50 Windows 95 machines and a mixture of 350  98 and NT 4 workstation machines still on campus.  Does anyone have input or experiences they would share with me as to how the older client OS's respond to this type of upgrade?  Most of the older machines have the AD add-on from 2000, is there anything additional we need to add to them for 2003?  We support a  total of 15,000 mixed OS clients if you including 10,000 students.

I would like to get rid of the old OS's completely but it seems like in the educational realm these things keep lingering.  Tell me what you know!

Thanks,

Julie   

Julie A. Wilson, MCSA
Microsoft Network Administrator
Exchange Administrator
Distributed Computing - Eastern Illinois University