Windows NT to 2003 Changeover Questions

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The one determining factor as to whether your plan will work or not depends
on the details on how you plan to do this:
> It's my intention to change to a 2003 PDC, and get rid of the NT PDC.


What are the exact steps you plan to take to do this?


DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"Kwashnak" <Kwashnak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E8D16FA4-0012-47E2-A98C-0785C0B9B19D@microsoft.com...
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm getting ready to jump our network from NT to Win 2003. Most of the
> materials I have read talk about upgrading the server software on the same
> machine. I'm running an old server that a) wouldn't probably run 2003,
> and
> b) I wouldn't want to try and run 2003 on. So I've been prepping a wholly
> new machine to be the 2003 server. In many ways I'm using this as a
> chance
> to clean up groups and users, so I'm not so worried about migrating the
> user
> database since I'll probably create it anew (though if there is a way, it
> might be useful). I've already got a 2003 machine on the NT network doing
> WINS and DHCP. The NT PDC is only being used for authentication.
>
> Changing over seems almost too straightforward and I'm afraid I'm missing
> a
> potential pitfall that I won't see until I'm working on the changeover on
> a
> Saturday afternoon. Is there anything in particular that people have
> found
> that I should be keeping an eye on, or better yet prepping ahead of time?
> It's my intention to change to a 2003 PDC, and get rid of the NT PDC.
> I'll
> then have one remaining NT server that is going to be upgraded soon after
> this project, and a 2000 server (which I do not intend on upgrading at
> this
> time). We're running a simple network in one building of about 100
> uesers,
> so I'm not going to need fancy Active Directory trees or such.
>
> Any advice or warnings is greatly appreciated. Forewarned is forearmed.
>
> J.J. Kwashnak