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Upgrade NT PDC to 2000 DC perhaps..

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Good morning,
Currently I have a small LAN (50 XP users) who logon to to our domain through a NT4 PDC. This is also the file server for the domain. For security and the learning experieince I would like to change the PDC to a Win2K server, & retain the NT4 box as the file server but am unsure how to go about this safely. How do I change the NT PDC to a DC and promote the 2K box to a PDC for users to logon to the domain. There are no batch files or scripts in the NT logon folder, so presumably it is the user settings (SAMS DB) I need to export to 2K. An important factor is that I do not lose any local settings (Outlook/desktop etc) for the XP users or I will be lynched...
Any advice or better ways of achieving this would be appreciated & thanx for your time..
G

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by uffe.sommerlund

Hi there

if I were in your position i would buy 1 more server to be running safe. Then on this new one install the Windows 2000 + the Active Directory. The new server I would use as the file server and the old NT. for Exchange server this also split your security. for the backup you can do it centralized by first compress the files in the server with the tape drive and then do the backup

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