PDC to DC

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Working on 3 NT 4.0 servers and have been asked to
migrate them to W2K. One of them is a PDC, no BDC, and
none of them can be brought down for a long period of
time. With this scenario, can I create a DC on a
temporary W2K machine to retain domain information and
then rebuild the NT 4.0 PDC machine to W2K with DC? The
temporary DC machine will be permanently removed shortly
after. Will that be a problem since the second DC was
not originally created?
 
Well, basically, that's the way it works! To retain all user account
information you have to upgrade the NT PDC to the first Win2000 DC.

Read the Microsoft site. There's plenty of stuff on upgrading an NT4
Domain to Win2k. I ended up with a stack of stuff I'd printed off that
was about 0.5cm thick, if not more.

It's not a trivial upgrade. But straightforward if you follow the
steps that MS give.

Cheers,

Cliff
 
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