Brenda, Thank you. I had no specific issues of concern. I was just looking for feedback from someone who had gone through the process, something to give me a little heads up on what the users may experience during the upgrade.
-----Original Message----- From: Brenda Frazier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 19:35 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD upgrade Cindy, We were in a similar situation. We did our upgrade on a Saturday morning advising our users there would be periodic, but short outages as we were upgrading the domain. As long as one NT4 domain controller and DNS/WINS server was available, all were happy. Unless your PDC and DNS servers have resources the users need access to, the users probably won't notice anything until they see the Directory icon show up under My Network Places\Entire Network, providing you aren't immediately using and applying GPOs.. Monday morning the users came in and logged on using their usual (Pre-Windows 2000) logon with no problems. We stayed in mixed mode for a few months until we were able to retire the NT4 DCs. Only the very observant noticed security policies were being applied to the workstations as they started finding the AD domain controllers. The other thing that cropped up was we had to remind the users not to change their password while logged on to multiple machines. Do you have a particular issue you are concerned with? Brenda Frazier Systems Engineer Belkin Corporation Information Services 310 604-2030 310 604-2022 fax www.belkin.com -----Original Message----- From: Rittenhouse, Cindy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 6:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] AD upgrade I finally have a date set for my AD upgrade. It will be in in place upgrade of our NT domain. I've done this procedure 3 times in my test lab and I'm 95% confident. What I don't know is what impact the upgrade process will have on our end users accessing network resources during the upgrade process. DHCP and WINS are on member servers, but our DNS server will promoted to a DC immediately after the PDC upgrade is complete. Are there any specific issues I should be aware of? I have a 7x24 network (don't we all), so taking the network down is not a viable option. Thanks Cynthia Rittenhouse MCSE,CCNA LAN Administrator County of Lancaster Lancaster, PA 17602 List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ Confidential This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are the property of Belkin Corporation and/or its affiliates, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipients or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
