NT4 to 2000 Upgrade

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Hello,

I realize that this topic has been discussed before, however I was
wondering if someone with more experience could shed some light on a
few specific things I have questions on.

1. I am planning on installing a new BDC, promoting it to a PDC and
doing an inplace upgrade - I currently have a BDC in my New York
office and locally (Los Angeles). The local BDC has Exchange 5.5 on
it. I guess a question here would be, is there anything wring with
doing this? Will I lose any functionality after the upgrade? My plan
is to upgrade the BDC/Exchange 5.5 server after the main domain.

2. What interuption will my users experience? If I were to do the
upgrade in the evening after most people have gone home, what could I
expect in the morning?

3. Should I be upgrading to 2000 or 2003? I will be installing a few
2003 member servers later this year and was wondering if there were
any issues to look out for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!