Jennifer- Following a forestprep and domainprep of your environment 2003 DCs will coexist peacefully with 2000. There are some Exchange 2000 issues you must be aware of though:
Before you convert to 2003 native mode, the RUS must be running on Exchange 2003 You must import the inetorgpersonfix.ldf schema fix before running adprep /forestprep if you're running Exchange 2000. In general, when you modify the schema under 2000 ALL of your global catalogs are going to perform a FULL resync. This is potentially a lot of bandwidth sucked if you have more than one domain and your links are not optimal. If you have one domain in your forest then this is not an issue. To replace that box, run dcpromo on it to demote it to a member server, and then run dcpromo to promote the new box to a domain controller. Quite easy. I personally recommend rebuilding DCs from scratch in lieu of an inplace upgrade, but that's an issue to tackle on a case-by-case basis. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jennifer Fountain Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 8:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Install Windows 2003 in a Windows 2000 AD Infrastructure Hi All: Currently, we have nine w2k domain controllers (remote sites, corp, etc). We want to upgrade them all to 2k3. I have been googling but haven't find the right q-article or step by step that will help me accomplish this. We want to one replace of the servers with new hardware but the other eight are fine and do not need to be replaced. Should I just upgrade them? Can I install the new server with w2k3 and can it coexist with the 2k servers? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! Kind Regards, Jennifer Fountain Systems Administrator/Security R&B Distribution 3400 E Walnut Street Colmar, PA 18915 List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
