Hi All,
I have yet another upgrade question that I would like to “bounce” of people. I currently have an NT 4.0 Domain, 1 PDC and 1 BDC, that I would like to upgrade to 2000. The PDC acts as the WINS and DHCP servers as well as a Print server, so I am a little apprehensive about upgrading straight away.
I have seen several posts about setting up another server, BDC, with 4.0, promoting it to the PDC and then upgrading it. When this new server gets promoted, the current PDC will automatically be demoted to a BDC. My question(s) is(are) with this break any of my current setting on the current PDC when it gets demoted to a BDC? Can I leave this BDC online while upgrading the new server to 2K?
I am in serious need of rebuildingmy current PDC, and am not sure it will meet the specs for 2000 server anyhow. My problem is that I need to do this ASAP, due to the fact that I believe this server is failing. It no longer lists itself in the Network Neighborhood, although you can map drives to it from the command line. An ultimately, I am planning on getting a new server, but this is a couple of months away and I don’t think this current machine will make it.
Do anyone have any sage advise to give me? Or even to tell me I am “whacked” about the above change over? Please let me know!
TIA!!!
Roger