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jeffery · Guest

can promote win2k3 server to DC in NT domain ?
And how to do this ?
I have facing a NT 40 migration project..
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Jeffery Chen

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jeffery · Guest

hello,Ada,

when take in-place upgrade,how can i make the boot partition more than 4 GB.

I do not want to do a fresh installation which would let me rejoin all the
client into domain agian..

thanks

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Jeffery Chen
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Ada Pan [MSFT] · Guest

Hello Chen,

You cannot simply promote Windows Sever 2003 to DC in NT 4.0 domain. You
need to firstly install Windows NT 4.0 on the machine, apply the latest
updates, prompt it to PDC, and then upgrade it to Windows Server 2003.

For you convenience, you can take a look at the following articles.

White Paper: Migrating Windows NT Server 4.0 Domains to Windows Server 2003
Active Directory
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/whyupgrade/nt4/nt4domt
oad.mspx

Smoothing the Migration from NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2004/jan04/01-28servermigration.
asp

Migrating from Windows NT Server 4.0 to Windows Server 2003

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/events/windows2003srv/tnt1-74.msp
x

Upgrading from Windows NT Server 4.0
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/upgrading/nt4/default.mspx

Support WebCast: Microsoft Windows Server 2003: Upgrading Windows NT 4.0
Domains to Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fservicedesks%2fwebcasts%2f
wc031803%2fwcblurb031803.asp

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Ada Pan

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Ada Pan [MSFT] · Guest

Hi Jeffery,

You can reference the steps in the following article to expand the existing
operating system partition during an upgrade to Windows Server 2003.

325857 How To Expand the Boot Partition During a Windows Server 2003 Upgrade
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=325857

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Ada Pan

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jeffery · Guest

Thank your reply...

my screion like that.
1 Nt40 PDC,act as file server,print server,wins server,dns server,DHCP
1 Nt40 DBC,not other role on it
150 client,including win98 se,win2k pro,winXP pro.
4 member server,Win2k server,win2k3 server. no exchange server.

My proposed upgrade path is like the below..

1,install Nt40 BDC in the new hardware.
2,patch the Nt40
3,sync allPDC and BDCs,then take old BDC offline.
4,promote Nt40 BDC to PDC,so the old PDC would demote to BDC.
5,during this term,migratition file server from old PDC to new PDC by backup
and restore method.
6,install win2k3 server in new PDC, and use unatted option to expand boot
partition.
7,use AD wizard to install AD in new PDC.
8,install DNS on new PDC
9,transfer old DNS record to new DNS.
10,install DHCP service in new PDC,
11,stop old DHCP,and start new DHCP
12,edit the scope setting ,enable client point the 1st dns server to PDC.
13,install all network printer.
14,let user to connect printer to new server.

that's all, it sound working, but still have some trouble, can not migration
smoothly...eg:user need connnect to the network printer once again.

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Ada Pan [MSFT] · Guest

Hi Jeffery,

I understand you encounter some issues during the migration. Generally, we
answer one question per post in the newsgroups. In order to concentrate
fully on each of these problems we ask that you post them as separate
threads. That way each issue can receive full attention from the Support
Professional. This will also make the thread more clear and consistent for
your reference. Please feel free to open different posts for these
questions. We will be very glad to work with you.

Thanks,
Ada Pan

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