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Upgrade Windows 4 Server to 2000 Server

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by vandean 1 view

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We have a Windows 4.0 network comprised of 9 Windows NT 4.0 Servers. All have SP6 on them. We will be adding 2 new servers and installing Windows 2000 Server on them. We would like one of them to be the PDC. Does anyone know of a good information site where I could get some information of the pitfalls and benefits of doing this? We don't want to upgrade all servers immediately due to time and cost restraints. I am mainly interested in what order to install (ie do I install the win2k server as pdc, or change after).

Thanks for your help.

Dean

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by sysadminkm

All the books I've read say do the highest computer first. That would be your main PDC. We did just that this week and found it fairly simple. However, I have yet to figure out how to get my BDC to be a BDC in the new Win2k domain. The wizards are useful if they work. If they don't you're back to searching for help.

By upgrading your PDC you can keep all of your users and computers in the reg. That was very simple, and nice not to have to add each workstation and back into the domain.

by jeff_acosta

You will need to upgrade your PDC to win2k first. After that the other servers. Remember with windows 2000 there are no more PDC or BDC its now only Domian Controllers. After that you need to think if you wanna implement AD.

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