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by danno

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I am planning to upgrade our domain which useses only PDC to win 2000 server. I am trying to do that on a new compaq hardware. What are the steps I should follow. Like how do I transfer all the user accounts etc.... I just need a to do kind of advice

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by bmyers

You should first create a BDC to fall back on. Then do a Win2000 upgrade installation on the PDC. All the user accounts will still be there.

by therock_3333

First thing
backup the PDC that you are gonna upgrade to win2kserver, windows has a good back up utility for this.
i dont know if you have any BDC's but i would recommend setting one up if you dont, just in case you have problems with the upgrade.
that way if the upgrade has a problem, you can promote the BDC to PDC and save yourself some headaches
I would assume that you are running nt4 for your PDC, and nt4 can be directly upgraded to win2k server as part of the installation options
justmake sure you back up all system state data (user accounts etc..) and get a BDC ready for promotion should you need it
nt4 should have a utility for backing up data, and then use the system restore wizard once you have upgraded to win2k server to get all your system state data on the new server

by timwalsh

The above answers will work if your PDC is the new Compaq computer already.
If I understand your scenario, you presently have a working NT 4 PDC. You wish to migrate to Win2K and create a Domain Controller on a new Compaq Server (other than your present PDC). If this is the case you need to use the following steps:
1. Make sure you have a good, recent full backup of your system.
2. Install NT4 on your new Compaq server, create as BDC, upgrade NT to at least SP4.
3. Force replication ofdomain info from PDC to BDC.
4. Promote the BDC (your new Compaq server) to PDC and make your old PDC, the BDC (important for disaster recovery purposes).
5. Do an upgrade installation (vs. clean install) of Win2K on your PDC. This will automatically invoke Active Directory (AD)installation to create your Win2K domain.
All user accounts and permissions will automatically be migrated if this process is followed. Make sure you do your homework on AD before you start. It will prevent a LOTof headaches later.
Hope this helps! Good luck!

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