Greetings, I have a Windows 2000 forest that has been Forest Prepped and had the root domain of the forest domain prepped as well as another domain tree root domain prepped.
I plan to follow the recommendations outlined in the article below in order to upgrade to 2003. My plan is to transfer FSMO roles to 2000 machines, and DCPROMO down existing DC's. Rebuild them as 2003 Servers then DCPROMO the box. According to my experience and what is outlined below in the article. The first DC's that are joined to the domain need to be servers that hold PDC and DNC FSMO roles. My experience was that when I tried the method outlined above, the first New 2003 DC joined to the root forest took on the PDC emulator role automatically. (I did this back in November 2003) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;325379 I want to verify this behavior because there is a movement in my group to want to deploy new 2003 DC's before upgrading the FSMO role holders. One person on my team says that the wording in the Q article isn't clear enough, that you must upgrade the FSMO role holders. So I bring this to the AD guru list to help me verify my perceptions, and to help answer any remaining questions. Thanks in advance, Todd 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/
