Mike-
You might want to consider using Upromote (http://www.purenetworking.net/Products/UPromote/UPromote.htm)
to drop your NT4 BDC to a standalone server. We did this on several machines
that were DCs in domains we were consolidating. Worked great for us...but if you
go this route be sure to test it in a lab setting first.
Hunter
From: Celone, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:24 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [ActiveDir] NT4 BDC question
We have a single NT4
machine that is a BDC in our AD. Right now the netlogon service has been
turned off because we are trying to get all machines to authenticate to our 3
Win2k DCs. We would shutdown and remove this server but it has Autodesk
Licence Manager on it and well it's being a PITA to move. We need to go
into Native mode so that I can use ADMT with SIDHistory and migrate our other
domain in.
So my question is
this. If we were to promote AD into Native mode and shutoff the netlogon
service on the NT4 BDC would it get cranky that it can't replicate with the
other DCs anymore? Or would it not even try anymore since the netlogon
service it turned off? We plan on moving ADLM but right now it's not a
priority and we need to start migrating in this other NT4 domain. ADLM
runs with the local service account and doesn't need access rights to the
network at all. Is there anything I am missing here?
Mike
