[windows2000] Re: Windows 2000 domain upgrade

  • From: Dave stevens <london31uk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:47:57 -0800 (PST)

OK, just wondered what you did. Did you upgrade your member servers first 
before your DC or the other way round.


Joanne Determann <joanne.determann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I was successful with my in place upgrades  DCs. The biggest scare for me was 
potentially loosing local cached credentials Joanne. 

 

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From: Dave stevens [mailto:london31uk@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:28 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Windows 2000 domain upgrade


 

Very useful insight. I guess removing a mirror drive is a nice and easy way to 
get things back up if all doesn't go well.


 


By the way what seems to be the great scare with in-place upgrades?


 


 


Dave

"Leitman, Ken" <ken.leitman@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


Yes.

 

How you do this is based on your skill set and comfort level. I have staff who 
are experienced in upgrade in place, and a lab where we can run through this. I 
also work with a separate Exchange and DBA group on the upgrade path for their 
products. We also development servers for our major applications. Not having 
these makes this a much more difficult decision. For file servers we remove a 
mirror drive, put in a new drive, wait for re mirror to complete, then do the 
upgrade (backups done the night before upgrade to verify completeness). On a 
few hundred GB file server this saves us a lot of time, but practice and test 
make any of this possible. 

As usual, some applications will not work through in place upgrades. And trying 
to do an upgrade with AV etc. still installed could be devastating,

kl

 

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From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dogers
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:09 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Windows 2000 domain upgrade


 

Is it best to do in place upgrades, or to create new machines (or reuse 
previous member machines, I guess!), join them and seize roles?

Andrew

On 09/11/05, Leitman, Ken <ken.leitman@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

1)       you must go to Windows 2003 SP1 for your DCs. 

2)       If you have remote offices with DCs check rpc settings for timeouts, 
we did have some issues with this setting being changed with SP1

3)       Verify all hardware drivers with SP1 before you roll it out, some 
video and other drivers MUST be upgraded, this was our biggest issue and we had 
issues with SCSI, video and network cards

4)       Start simple with local FSMO servers and make sure you have a plan in 
place to move roles around

 

We did all of our 54 DCs in about three weeks. Without SP1 we ran into all 
sorts of crazy issues, even with all of our testing.

We use HP servers, but we have seen the same driver problems on eval IBM and 
Dell servers when applying SP1

Remove any third party software you can before any server upgrades, by removing 
the monitoring, AV and backup software, we were able to script an in place 
upgrade from W2K to W2K3. 

Plan, test, plan some more and good luck, thankfully this is less complex than 
Nt4 à W2K, or initial AD design/implementation,

kl

 

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From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joanne Determann
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:00 PM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Windows 2000 domain upgrade


 

First thing I did was determine the compatibly of all my apps and programs. 

(Although my Websense DC agent doesn't work now even though their support 
insisted it was 2003 compatible.)

 

Then I made a spread sheet 'server plan' . what  server does what and how it 
was gonna move things around during the upgrade. 

 

Now it's in MS project timeline. 

 

My DC's are done, Terminal Servers ( licensing is a biggy),backup and one 
webserver are complete

Doing Exchange next week. 

 

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From: Dave stevens [mailto:london31uk@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:53 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Windows 2000 domain upgrade


 

Hi Guys,


 


 


I have just been tasked with comming up with a detailed plan for our 2000 
domain upgrade to 2003. 


Does anyone have any tips  / whitepapers that would help.


 


Currently it is a single domain, multiple sites setup we have. Any suggestions 
would be helpful.


 


 


Thanks


 


Dave


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