Jitendra,
I noticed you stated that the Win2K environment is almost
non-existent.... if that's true then a side-by-side migration may be a
possiblity.
If you're keeping the Win2K solution, I'd definitely stabilise first...
don't touch Group Policy until you've resolved any DNS issues first,
otherwise you may be adding SYSVOL/FRS replication to your list of
issues. Personally, I'd be looking at what the business requirements are
and what the desire and drive to implement GPOs is based on. You didn't
state what your role is in this or what the size of the organisation is,
but if it's simply a case of a manager reading a TCO whitepaper and
saying I want that, I'd look to get some sort of formal backing or
management buy-in for stabilising the environment before you even
consider continuing. Once you've jumped over those hurdles and resolve
your AD issues, and implemented some sort of AD monitoring solution
(even if its just using the support tools), only then would I consider
looking at the upgrade path to Win2k3 and subsequently implementing GPO.
Regards,
Mylo
Jitendra Kalyankar wrote:
Here is scenario that is currently being played in my company. We have
W2K AD in place,
we are not using GPOs except one or two. Now suddenly they (read
managers) realized that
we need to implement GPO extensively. There are issues with current AD
infrastructure like
replication is not proper, DNS etc. And other thing is my company has
at least 12 different
language that we have to support on Windows XP OS.
Now there are two groups in company one is saying go for fixing the
existing infrastructure
and second is saying go for W2K3 since the W2K is almost non-existant.
My question to list
is what would you suggest in this situation. Any insights, inputs are
more than welcome. Also
I will keep posted about the decision we (read managers) make, we are
having a meeting with
Microsoft for this but just as heads up I need to understand obvious
pitfalls if any.
--
Sincerely,
Jitendra Kalyankar
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