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Windows 2003 Migration of active directory

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by scaristinos 1 view

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I work for a small school district and have purchased a new server along with Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition R2. My current situation has one server(windows 2000 Advanced Server) as the DC running, AD, DNS, DHCP, file and
print server. I only want to move AD to the new server. I know I should do more.

What is the best method to go about doing this upgrade?

Any suggestions would be great!

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by voldar

You don't want to migrate a domain to another one, but an AD structure from a DC to another one. So, the best and quickest way to do that is to create a second DC2 (the new server) and then, once the replication occurred, demote the first DC1. Do not forget to move the roles of the DC1 to DC2 before demote (it's better to do that).

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