Guest DianeA Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 I'm planning my migration from SBS4.5: (long overdue) 1. Anything worth keeping has been moved off of SBS (not using Exchange or SQL) basically ready to dump it. 2. Configured target box with NT4.0 BDC and ready to promote to PDC and run upgrade 3. Secondary BDC in the wings A few loose ends (questions): Q1. The target hardware will hold Windows 2003... Is there any reason I would want to go to Windows Server 2000 first and then to Windows 2003? Q2. My plan was to: - unplug the secondary BDC from network (after synch). - Unplug SBS from network - Promote BDC (Target machine) to PDC - At this point... Prior to upgrade... should I remove Target Machine from the network and perform the upgrade (but plug it into a standalone hub)? Q3. My current domain name is "NTDOMAIN" (a little outdated!)... When i impliment AD will I have the opportunity to change this to eg. mycompany.loc or am I stuck with NTDOMAIN.LOC? Q4. DNS is currently running on a member server. Does this need to be disabled prior to implimenting DNS on target server or do I even need to install another DNS server? PS... we have approx. 20 XP Pro computers on this one and only domain. With 2 additional member servers running Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Many thanks Diane
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