It sounded to me like he needed a W2K DC for a while at a remote site with no W2K boxes and was concerned about the impact a W2K3 DC would have on the current W2K AD environment. A VM would allow the W2K DC without requiring the W2K3 AD schema updates...
********************** Charlie Kaiser MCSE, CCNA Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 510 595 5083 ********************** > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Almeida Pinto, Jorge de > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:26 AM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Can a 2003 server be a domain > controller in a 2000 domain? > > I don't understand this one..... to me he wants to introduce > a temporary w2k3 DC for testing purposes. I agree that is you > want to test things you need a test environment and not your > production environment to test this > Cheers, > #JORGE# > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Charlie Kaiser > Sent: Fri 7/8/2005 5:41 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Can a 2003 server be a domain > controller in a 2000 domain? > > > > If you don't want to deal with the 2k - 2k3 upgrade bit, you might > consider running a VM on one of the 2k3 servers with 2k as > the guest OS. > Make that into a DC and you have a local 2K dc. I wouldn't > run it long > term necessarily, but it might buy you time until you're ready to > upgrade. > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=64DB8 > 45D-F7A3-4 > 209-8ED2-E261A117FC6B&displaylang=en > > ********************** > Charlie Kaiser > MCSE, CCNA > Systems Engineer > Essex Credit / Brickwalk > 510 595 5083 > ********************** > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Antonio Aranda > > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:25 AM > > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > > Subject: [ActiveDir] Can a 2003 server be a domain controller > > in a 2000 domain? > > > > > > > > I have a 2000 domain with a mix of 2000 and 2003 member > > machines. There is > > an offsite where all the member machines are 2003. And I > > wanted to setup an > > alternative Domain controller at this site with what is > > already there. I am > > in the process of planning and testing the upgrade to a 2003 > > domain but > > until then I need a domain controller at this site. So would > > 2003 domain > > controller work in a 2000 domain at least temporary? > > > > Antonio > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > > List archive: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > > > This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the > intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary > material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal > privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or > used by, any other party. If you are not an intended > recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any > attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
