You need to figure out if you want an NT 4.0 domain, or an Active Directory
structure. If you want and NT 4.0 domain, then there is absolutely nothing
that you can do with W2K except have it as member servers. If you want AD,
then you need to upgrade your PDC to W2K. As Richard says, there is nothing
that would prevent you from simply reinstalling NT on a W2K server,
promoting it to the PDC, then upgrading it to W2K. That will automatically
install Active Directory for you and will migrate all the users, etc. into
the Active Directory database. Mind you, they will in no way be organized
into OU's or anything like that. But you don't want to simply run DCPROMO
on the W2K servers before you upgrade your PDC to W2K. That would be bad.
There are a ton of whitepapers around about AD and upgrade strategies and
such. My suggestion would be to read some more of them. There are a lot
more things to take into consideration than just wanting to have W2K DC's.
DNS, for one.
Ben Winzenz, MCSE
Network/Systems Administrator
Peregrine Systems, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard McClary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:18 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Upgrading domain....how?
Let's see if I follow you-
You have new hardware (currently running W2K-S), and they are member
servers. You would like them to be DC's, but you don't want to go native...
Unless someone has come up with a trick, dcpromo on a W2K box will insist
on AD, etc. You can, however, upgrade an existing NT4 DC to W2K DC.
I would say blow away the W2K system partition, install NT4 as a new
BDC. After everything is backed up and appears to be running correctly,
promote it to PDC. Shut down your old PDC.
If you really want this piece of hardware to be running W2K Server, you can
then do an upgrade of the existing DC.
>I have an NT4 domain that is part of my corporate group of domains. My
>company
>will probably not
>have a Win2K domain structure in place for another year or so, and I want
to
>upgrade my domain
>to new servers with Win2K. I guess my question is, how is it best to
>accomplish
>this? I have a couple of
>NT4 servers (old 266Mhz machines now) and a couple of new servers with
Win2K
>server installed
>as domain members. It's not as simple as running the dcpromo command, I
don't
>think. Reading through
>tech notes from MS implies ways to migrate domains and upgrade NT4 boxes to
>Win2K, but I'm not
>sure that's what I am really looking for. Anyone have any suggestions to
>share?--
Richard D. McClary | Systems Administrator
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