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by shanghai sam

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I've been given the task (opportunity) to upgrade our current NOS (3 servers) from Novell 3.12 to Windows 2000 server. It wont be an actual upgrade since the w2k servers will be installed on new machines. I will also introduce and Exchange server to the environment. My questions are as follows:
1.Which should be upgraded(installed) first? 200+ Workstations or 3 Servers and Exchange.
2.Since there are 3 servers (each for separate communities - acct, comm, tech - on same network) and 1 exchange server would each server be its own PDC?
3.Is active directory installed on each?
As you can see from my questions I have little Windows experience so be gentle. All help and direction is appreciated. Althought this may be an easy question for most, I increased the points for more specific help. Thanks.

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by griz1975

(1) - I would recommend doing the servers first. Doing each step slowly and correctly.

(2) - Windows 2000 does not have PDC/BDC recognition. Servers are either stand alone or domain controllers. Domain controllers contain the Active Directory accounts and information. If all servers are going to be on the same network, why not share all 3 servers for each community? Make 1 a Domain Controller (AD, DNS, WINS, DHCP, etc), make 1 a File/Printer Server, and make 1 an exchange server.

(3)- Active Directory is only installed on Domain Controllers. DNS MUST be installed and configured prior to installing and configuring AD.

There are several good books out there on how to do each item step-by-step. Let me know if you need any ISBN number and I could look em up for ya.

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