I would say follow the article and upgrade at least your PDCe and your Domain Naming Master, then add a couple of new 2003 Domain Controllers and transfer the roles to them. Then you can retire the upgraded DC's...
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Rochford Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 4:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Upgrading to Windows 2003 I have a Windows 2000 domain with 6 servers running Windows 2000 spread across 3 sites. I want to move to Windows 2003 and, reasonably soon, replace all the 2000 servers with new servers so I don't really want to upgrade the existing servers if I can avoid it. Can I: Run adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep on one of the servers Wait for the changes to replicate Install a new 2003 server Run DCPromo on that new server or should I: install a "spare" server with Windows 2000 run dcpromo on that server run adprep etc upgrade that server to Windows 2003 install a new 2003 server and run dcpromo remove the "spare" server or is there a better way. I've read KB article 325379 but it seems to assume that I'm going to upgrade existing hardware. Steve 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/
