Thank you,
Your reassurance is making this a little easier
for me to proceed. asa far as the exchange issue would i be better off
running the preps from the exchange 2003 cd ? I though i read the running from
the e2k3 cd was better ?
jeff
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 4:29 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] forest /domain prep for win2k to win 2003 upgrade
2003's forestprep requires network connectivity. So you'd
at least need to connect your "interims" DC to another separate
network.
Though I am all for a well planned routine that allows an
easy fall-back in case of any issues, your sister company's environment doesn't
really sound like anything you couldn't handle with less effort. I've
never had a single 2000/2003 ADPrep fail, if the required prep steps
performed correctly - e.g. including the necessary preps to correct the
Exchange 2000 schema stuff - check Q314649.
For
this size environment, I don't expect
you'd have much more than 4 DCs (2 for the root and 2 for the unneccessary
child) - I'd simply suggest to perform a backup of all of them and then (after
adding the Exchange fix and letting it replicate) to perform the ADPREP
/forestprep right on your current Schema Master, let this replicate and validate
success. Then perform the /domainprep right on your two IFM role
holders.
The likelyhood of anything going wrong is very very low
and will certainly not kill your AD (you can even re-run the ADprep /forestprep
as many times as you like - e.g. if certain permissions in the config container
are not set correcly - it will never do anything "bad" for your forest).
In very unlikely case of something still going wrong,
you're in the fortunate position to be able to restore all of your DCs back to
the same point in time with rather limited efforts. The chances that this
would be required are very slim so that you can save yourself a lot of extra
work and unintentional risk by going your proposed
way.
/Guido
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Kraus
Sent: Montag, 18. April 2005 19:24
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] forest /domain prep for win2k to win 2003 upgrade
Hi,
I am in a situation
that I'm trying to make the best of. We have a sister company that we do support
for. they need to upgrade from 2000 to 2003. here's the issue they have there
own budget and they will not credit our dept for overtime to do the
forest/domain prep after hours.
moderate size
company ,they have their own forest ,150 users 2 sites (default and 1
other), one child domain, and 1 exhcange 2000 server. once people login in
inthemornings they pretty much dont logg out till the
evening
what I'd like to do
is use an old server install 2000 makde it a dc, ghost it, then tranfer
the fsmo's to that server, disconnect it from the network and run forest
prep.
if all goes
well and nothing blows up , connect it to the network and let it replicate , wathcit for a day then transfer roles
off of it and remove it from the forest.
what are
your estemmed opinons ?
Jeff Kraus
Network Manger
NIC Holding Corp.
25 Melville Park Rd
Melville NY, 11747
Voice: 631.753.4272
Fax:
631.753.4305
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