[windows2000] Re: Active directory conversions
- From: Bill Beckett <Bill.Beckett@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:22:58 -0400
Seems a bit overkill to me. Why not just build a BDC, synch it and then take
it off line. Do your migration and if something goes sideways, bring it back
online and promote it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Gauss [SMTP:GauCra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:21 AM
> To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [windows2000] Re: Active directory conversions
>
> This is what the instructor of our AD class told us is a good way to do
> it,
> just want to check if I may be missing anything:
>
> 1 - Build a temporary box as a NT4.0 BDC
> 2 - Promote the temporary box to a PDC
> 3 - Check replication
> 4 - Upgrade the temporary box to Windows 2k or 2k3
> 5 - Wipe out one of the existing NT4.0 BDC's and set it up from scratch
> with
> 2k or 2k3 as a member server
> 6 - Run DCPROMO on the member server
> 7 - Transfer the 5 roles to this newly promoted machine
> 8 - Demote the temporary box and remove it
>
>
> Does this sound like a good start?
>
> Right now I have the temp box setup as a NT4.0 BDC.
> I have 6 servers I need to bring into this newly formed W2k AD structure
> when all is said and done.
>
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