If they're all stable, I'd just do the inplace upgrade.
--Brian
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From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 8/2/2004 12:49 PM
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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.<<winmail.dat>>
