Sound advice regarding the setting up of a lab and I certainly intend to
put my foot down for some lab kit when asked to implement a migration for
my company.
Have run the client beta of XP a couple of times and although very
impressed with the features, feel and especially would could be the
invaluable Terminal services running on it, both of my installations ended
up in oblivion, just couldn't boot into them one day and after a few
efforts couldn't be bothered to salvage them. Probably because it was a
beta and not as stable as the released product will hopefully be.
Regards, James.
> Just something to consider. Windows 2002 Server will have some improvements
> to Active Directory that are worth waiting for if your CO is sizeable and
> already has an X500/LDAP infrastructure built. We went so far as to test the
> alpha code to see if it fixed the problems we were seeing & with a couple of
> tweaks & recommendations to Mickey$oft, beta code ran the integration fine...
> (of course, that was in the lab).
>
> From a migration stand point, scale up a lab fully, set up 2 BDC's in your
> current domain, get them stable & then pull them out & put it in the lab on an
> isolated network. Promote 1 to PDC and go to town with migration testing.
> Every installation is unique and this exercise is well worth testing. Also
> when you're migrating have a back out plan (ie. build a BDC & pull it from
> the network just before you execute).
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owsley, Kenneth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 5:53 PM
> Subject: Windows 2000 or Windows XP
>
>
> : I expecting there are a lot of opinions out there. Please, if you haven't
> : experienced the migration from NT Server to Windows 2000 Server, please
> : don't respond. What I am looking for is the advice of the guys and gals
> : who've done the do, so to speak. I don't mean to sound like a jerk,
> : please forgive me.
> :
> : Having said that, my question is simple: I haven't migrated my NT domain
> : to Windows 2000 and Active Directory. I am totally jazzed on Windows
> : 2000, by comparison, so am ready to migrate. Is there any reason to wait
> : for .NET server or Windows XP Server, or what-the-heck-ever it is called?
> : You folks that have made the migration, what is your take? Should I go
> : ahead with my migration, then do the next version when it stabilizes in
> : the market?
> :
> : You guys are in the trenches, and I hope will tell what the trade rags
> : won't. Or maybe there isn't anything to tell? Thanks!
> :
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