I don't typically do all that stuff as I'm often doing hundreds of DCs. What I will do is move FSMO roles to an alternate before bouncing the role owners.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Question on Upgrade process Just like to quickly bounce this off the list. I have a task to upgrade a set of Domain Controllers from Windows 2003 SP1, to Windows 2003 SP2 accordingly. Do most of you do the DC's without the FSMO roles, first, and then do dcdiag, netdiag, and repadmin then do the servers with the FSMO roles accordingly? Do you usually move your FSMO Roles before you upgrade the machines accordingly? I haven't seen any issues in the 100+ upgrades that have been done already but given these are the DC's just a little leery about replication issues, failure of a role-server etc etc afterwards. Has anyone seen or experienced anything negative in there travels through the SP upgrade route? Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone:401-639-3505 ________________________________ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
