RE: [ActiveDir] Inplace DC upgrade to 2003 on HP/Compaq hardware?

[Adams, Kenneth W \(Ken\)]

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Personally, I'd go with your alternate option of performing a wipe and load.  That ensures you don't have any inefficiencies carried over from the previous OS.   If you copy the OS and HP Support Pack software onto a networked share, you should be able to perform the installations without having anyone on site to swap CDs.  You would link to the share from the target server using its RIB connection, run the setup program and select the new installation option (it will copy the files it needs to the local drive).  Once the OS is installed, you would establish a link to the network share that contains the HP Support Software and run it's setup program.   I've performed this operation from the console of one of my local servers when going from NT4 to 2000.  We're not licensed to use 2K3 yet (will be next year), so I don't have personal experience with 2000 to 2K3 (yet).   HTH. Ken Adams -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 1:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Inplace DC upgrade to 2003 on HP/Compaq hardware? Has anyone done an in-place upgrade from 2000 to 2003 on HP/Compaq servers?   I am trying to put together a plan for upgrading our forest, and one of the sticky points is our remote domain controllers. What I would like to do is update each DC to the latest 2k support pack, then do an in-place 2003 upgrade, then grab the latest 2k3 support pack (I am assuming that the 2k and 2k3 versions of support pack are different).   I will, of course, test in the lab, but as some great admiral once said: "The best scale for an experiment is twelve inches to the foot". I'd like to hear from someone who's done this in the real world.   My other option is to demote the existing DC, rebuild from scratch, and promote. I can do this fairly easy (all my remote DCs have RIB cards), but it will require someone at each location to swap the smart start CD with the OS cd.