It is no coincidence that my blog starts the week after we decide to upgrade the network. Its been an interesting week at work, we have a two tier domain with a master domain only holding 2 domain controllers with a subdomain which contains 2 DC's and everything else!
Last week we went and put in our first 2003 domain controller. All seemed to go well so I am awaiting the fallout on Tuesday when I return to work. With the boss away its going to be interesting on my own.
The DC went in on the subdomain and was dcpromo'd up with DHCP and integrated DNS on it. We then set all the static PC's to use the new DNS server with the other server holding the FSMO roles for the subdomain.
The other DC was then dcpromo'd down to leave the single DC with the FSMO roles running Win2K and the new Win2k3 server. We also made the Win2k3 server the global catalog for the subdomain. So far all seems to be OK.
Next step is to get a new Win2k3 DC in the top level domain so that they are all talking the some language so to speak. Ideally I would like to remove all the old Windows 2000 DC's by transferring the FSMO roles to the new servers and remove the old DC's as they have been upgraded and upgraded since NT 3.51 so they deserve retirement.
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