The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P58:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 536 Chapter 15 Working with Domain Controllers to that DC and transfer a copy of the Active Directory database making a new DC. If this fails you have a great opportunity to determine why. Use the hints just mentioned and verify that all is in place. We requested a Retry more than once before noticing the we misspelled administrator sometimes it s the simplest answer. Review the Summary and click Next. 12. After the transfer is complete which should take several minutes you will see the Complete dialog box a sign that all went well. Again note the location of the DC in the Default-First-Site-Name site and click Finish. 13. The last step is to restart the Restart obviously reboots the server which then comes back online as a DC in your existing domain. Upgrading Domain Controllers to Windows Server 2003 If you administer an existing domain and are looking to upgrade to Windows Server 2003 your best bet is to upgrade the DCs one by one until they are all at the same level. Server 2003 can coexist with Server 2000 and NT as long as you are aware of the caveats associated with such an environment. Even if you plan to upgrade all of the DCs you must still temporarily run the network as a mixed environment. Upgrading your existing domain can be done in one of two ways in-place upgrade or migration. An in-place upgrade means that you take your existing DC and install Windows Server 2003 right over the top of existing domain structure with all of its user group and computer accounts will be migrated into the new Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. The advantages are clear It s simple and quick. You don t need a new computer. No new SIDs or trusts have to be created which keeps all your existing member servers and resource domains happy. Everyone gets to keep his or her password. Migrating from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003 in this manner works well. Why would you upgrade any other way Experts suggest that you avoid the in-place .
