RE: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-24 Thread Ziots, Edward
: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Upgrade process DC's are GC's... So there are plenty of those. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org

RE: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-24 Thread Free, Bob
organization between the root and the child. My 2 penneth, I'd be curious what Brian thinks since he works with some very large customers. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Upgrade process

RE: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Upgrade process Thanks Brian there isn't 100's of DCs in this upgrade only like 8 total, and only 3-4 hold the FSMO roles, (1 in the root) and 2 in the child domain. Basically just use the GUI or NTDSUTIL to transfer the roles, do a netdom query fsmo

RE: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-16 Thread Ziots, Edward
: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Upgrade process I think that's a decent plan. If you run into issues, DCpromo the problem DC out of the environment, fix SP issues, and re-promote. I assume you have a couple of GCs per domain. Cheers

RE: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-16 Thread Chyka, Robert
Not necessarily. You have to manually make a DC a GC. Bob C. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Upgrade process DC's are GC's... So

RE: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-16 Thread Ziots, Edward
] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Upgrade process Not necessarily. You have to manually make a DC a GC. Bob C. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 16

Re: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-16 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
[mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:06 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Question on Upgrade process DC’s are GC’s… So there are plenty of those. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security

RE: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-16 Thread Ziots, Edward
, 2009 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Question on Upgrade process He's referring to his own DC's. He's the OP, and is referring to himself. -- ME2 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Chyka, Robert bch...@medaille.edu wrote: Not necessarily. You have to manually make a DC a GC

Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-15 Thread Ziots, Edward
Just like to quickly bounce this off the list. I have a task to upgrade a set of Domain Controllers from Windows 2003 SP1, to Windows 2003 SP2 accordingly. Do most of you do the DC's without the FSMO roles, first, and then do dcdiag, netdiag, and repadmin then do the servers with the

RE: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-15 Thread Brian Desmond
, 2009 6:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Question on Upgrade process Just like to quickly bounce this off the list. I have a task to upgrade a set of Domain Controllers from Windows 2003 SP1, to Windows 2003 SP2 accordingly. Do most of you do the DC's without the FSMO roles, first

RE: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-15 Thread Ziots, Edward
Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Upgrade process I don't typically do all that stuff as I'm often doing hundreds of DCs. What I will do is move FSMO roles to an alternate before bouncing the role owners. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Ziots

RE: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-15 Thread David Lum
ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Question on Upgrade process Just like to quickly bounce this off the list. I have a task to upgrade a set of Domain

Re: Question on Upgrade process

2009-09-15 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
:* Question on Upgrade process Just like to quickly bounce this off the list. I have a task to upgrade a set of Domain Controllers from Windows 2003 SP1, to Windows 2003 SP2 accordingly. Do most of you do the DC’s without the FSMO roles, first, and then do dcdiag, netdiag, and repadmin