Sorry you are correct I checked my reference I had remembered it backwards. The solution would be to still be to bring in a W2k machine after taking at least a BDS off line promoting it to DC then offing the original DS. The BDS would still be available if the waters were not good for you.
Jon Harris System Administrator Florida Institute of Phosphate Research SC 515-0507 (863) 534-7160 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Winzenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:36 PM Subject: RE: Upgrading domain....how? > Jon, > > I think you got things a bit mixed up. You cannot, repeat cannot, have a > Windows 2000 BDC on an NT 4.0 network. They don't exist. Once you install > a Windows 2000 DC, you are running Active Directory. You can still have > downlevel NT 4.0 BDC's, and the W2K DC will act as the "PDC Emulator", but > understand that. Also, what is recommended, or at least one of the > recommendations, is as I stated before, to upgrade your current NT 4.0 PDC > to W2K, which will also install AD during the upgrade process and keep all > user accounts and such intact. You then go from there. > > Ben Winzenz, MCSE > Network/Systems Administrator > Peregrine Systems, Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:15 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Upgrading domain....how? > > I will offer this from my reading doing a dcpromo will indeed install AD > but... will not go native 2k. W2k assumes you are running a mixed network > anyway. I also read that upgrading an existing NT4 machine was best done by > blowing off NT and reloading from scratch W2k. MS recommends after setting > up a W2k BDS on an existing NT4 network you shutdown the PDS (NT4 machine) > and allow the W2k to work as a PDS. You should have a couple of days to > test out the waters before committing to this. If it all crashes turn on > the PDS allow the BDS to update the PDS then shutdown the BDS. You will be > back to a NT net. Good luck though. I never tried it I just took every > thing off line brought up the new PDS (W2k) and brought up the rest of the > network. > > Jon Harris > System Administrator > Florida Institute of Phosphate Research > > SC 515-0507 > (863) 534-7160 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:55 AM > Subject: Upgrading domain....how? > > > > > > > > Folks, > > > > I have an NT4 domain that is part of my corporate group of domains. My > company > > will probably not > > have a Win2K domain structure in place for another year or so, and I want > to > > upgrade my domain > > to new servers with Win2K. I guess my question is, how is it best to > accomplish > > this? I have a couple of > > NT4 servers (old 266Mhz machines now) and a couple of new servers with > Win2K > > server installed > > as domain members. It's not as simple as running the dcpromo command, I > don't > > think. Reading through > > tech notes from MS implies ways to migrate domains and upgrade NT4 boxes > to > > Win2K, but I'm not > > sure that's what I am really looking for. Anyone have any suggestions to > share? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mike > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > Want to unsub? Do that here: > > http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub > > Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: > > http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ > > > > > Want to unsub? Do that here: > http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub > Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: > http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ > > Want to unsub? Do that here: > http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub > Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: > http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ > Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/
