I like the way you describe the "NEW" controller once upgraded.
It is important to keep in mind that there is a whole new naming scheme for
M$ under 2000....due to AD...and the revised M$ marketing strategy.....
PDC >> GCS and so on.........
NT (not anymore this is what scared people from the early days and still
does) >> XP
ect.....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Winzenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:36 PM
Subject: RE: Upgrading domain....how?
> Jon,
>
> I think you got things a bit mixed up. You cannot, repeat cannot, have a
> Windows 2000 BDC on an NT 4.0 network. They don't exist. Once you
install
> a Windows 2000 DC, you are running Active Directory. You can still have
> downlevel NT 4.0 BDC's, and the W2K DC will act as the "PDC Emulator", but
> understand that. Also, what is recommended, or at least one of the
> recommendations, is as I stated before, to upgrade your current NT 4.0 PDC
> to W2K, which will also install AD during the upgrade process and keep all
> user accounts and such intact. You then go from there.
>
> Ben Winzenz, MCSE
> Network/Systems Administrator
> Peregrine Systems, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:15 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Upgrading domain....how?
>
> I will offer this from my reading doing a dcpromo will indeed install AD
> but... will not go native 2k. W2k assumes you are running a mixed network
> anyway. I also read that upgrading an existing NT4 machine was best done
by
> blowing off NT and reloading from scratch W2k. MS recommends after
setting
> up a W2k BDS on an existing NT4 network you shutdown the PDS (NT4 machine)
> and allow the W2k to work as a PDS. You should have a couple of days to
> test out the waters before committing to this. If it all crashes turn on
> the PDS allow the BDS to update the PDS then shutdown the BDS. You will
be
> back to a NT net. Good luck though. I never tried it I just took every
> thing off line brought up the new PDS (W2k) and brought up the rest of the
> network.
>
> Jon Harris
> System Administrator
> Florida Institute of Phosphate Research
>
> SC 515-0507
> (863) 534-7160
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:55 AM
> Subject: Upgrading domain....how?
>
>
> >
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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