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More info?)
You should just be able to run the dcpromo.exe command from the 2k3 box.
Follow the steps that dcpromo.exe displays.
HTH
RC-
"Troy Titus" <TroyTitus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A30B2943-0202-461F-9806-BA9B941F69D5@microsoft.com...
> How do you promote a W2K3 Server to be the Domain Controller? When I view
> the Server Manager on my Windows NT4 PDC box it does not give me the
> option
> to promate my W2K3 Server. Do you have to make the W2K3 Server an Active
> Directory Server first? I was told you could not have a Windows NT4 PDC
> Server on the same network with a W2K3 Active Directory Server?
>
> "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> In news:OCCeE4dKFHA.2748@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
>> Marek <nospam@spam.spam> commented
>> Then Kevin replied below:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have a domain with an NT as PDC and a 2000 member
>> > server.
>> > I want to install a new box with 2k3 on it, and
>> > decomission the NT box... What do I need to do to get all
>> > the user accounts from the NT box seemlessly over to the
>> > 2k3 box? The only other thing the NT box does is DHCP,
>> > which is much easier to resetup than creating all those
>> > users and permissions again...
>> >
>> > Thanks
>>
>> Promote the Win2k3 to a DC, (Use a different NetBIOS domain name) then
>> use
>> ADMT to migrate the NT4 domain accounts to the Win2k3 domain. This will
>> work
>> totally seamless and can even migrate the SIDs and user profiles. The
>> only
>> thing that has to be different is the NetBIOS domain name, so you can set
>> up
>> trust between the domains which allows you to use ADMT.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
>> Hope This Helps
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