I think that's a decent plan. If you run into issues, DCpromo the problem DC out of the environment, fix SP issues, and re-promote. I assume you have a couple of GCs per domain.
Cheers Ken From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 10:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Upgrade process Thanks Brian there isn't 100's of DCs in this upgrade only like 8 total, and only 3-4 hold the FSMO roles, (1 in the root) and 2 in the child domain. Basically just use the GUI or NTDSUTIL to transfer the roles, do a netdom query fsmo to check to make sure it moved, and do the SP as usual. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone:401-639-3505 ________________________________ From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Upgrade process 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]<mailto:[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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
