Situation: Secondary School with 500 pupils & 55 staff. Current Network PDC & BDC NT 4 (SP6a), 100 x Win 98 Workstations on one domain. There are 4 main IT classrooms each with 16 workstations and the remainder in small groups. 85 workstations hard wired, 15 wireless.
We have the following new equipment available: 2x Servers with Server 2003, 30x workstations with Win XP Pro. 70 of the old workstations will run XP Pro.
I want to make a ?fresh start?, but will need to move the pupil\staff folders and passwords over to the new domain, which does not necessarily need to have to have the same name. The changeover will need to be done in stages, room by room, but the current facilities will need to run during changeover.
My aim is:
Set up 1 new 2003 Server as Domain member, copy all data across from NT PDC, shut down NT PDC & BDC, promote 2003 Server to DC (AD, New Forrest), add Users Accounts, add the second new 2003 Server as DC and set all existing workstations to run from the new servers. I can then roll out the workstations at my leisure. Is this pie in the sky? I need some sound practical advice from experienced Net Admin \ Managers who can steer me in the right direction and point out pitfalls to avoid so that I don?t make a total mess of the project!
