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Easy Points (?) Promote an NT server

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by bitbucketboy 1 view

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We have a new Antivirus solution that does not get along with the NT 3.51 PDC. I have a new NT40 server ready to go, but when I try to promote it from the PDC, I get an 'access denied' error. Microsoft article Q197488 sez hey, that's what they do. Upgrade to 4.0 SP 4. Okay, but I wanted to keep the resources (printers and shared directories) available to users w/o reloading each and every driver. Can I dumb-down the SP on the new server until it is promoted? Is there a dirty way to make the new one PDC without the process, and likewise make the old war-horse a backup? Should I suck it up and spend the day finding drivers to replace the old 3.51 printer drivers?

Thanks in advance for your comprehensible and thoughtful solution.

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by curacao_dejavu

If your question is if you could update the new server to service pack 4 (I recommend sp6a right away) then the answer is yes.
You would very likely need sp4 and higher anyay for the videocard/nic etc you may have attached to the new pdc.
You should have the server as ready and updated as possible before you the promoting stuff.

As long as the printers are on the old 3.51 server you dont have to replace drivers.

if you need more direction you can contact me.
Leopold

by bitbucketboy

The question was wheter I could update the old server to 4.0, in order to do the 'According to Hoyle' promotion. The new server already has SP6a on it - that may be part of the problem.

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